THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 Feb. 10, 2010 • vol 25 no 19 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Rugby star is out, and winning big
By Ross Forman page 17 Sandra Gareth Thomas, a muscled sportsman in the ul- Bernhard timate macho sport, was admittedly nervous be- fore coming out this past December. He had the normal and natural personal is- sues to consider of family and close friends. He also had teammates, coaches, opponents, fans and his worldwide appeal as one of the greatest rugby players ever. “Right before coming out, I was really ner- vous,” he said. “Sports—rugby, in particular— have been my life. I can never imagine living without sports or rugby. It’s in my blood to play rugby. But I really was nervous for the reaction that I was going to get.” Especially since he made the meticulously- planned announcement in the morning, and then that afternoon joined his Cardiff Blues teammates for a match against Toulouse—which was a team he previously played for, and a hos- Kirby tile place for opponents. Dick page 14 “I thought the reception I’d get [before] that game might be a bit frosty, but actually, when my name was announced, and then when I took the field, it probably was the loudest cheer of the day—and that totally blew me away,” Thom- as said. “Ever since then, all I’ve heard is cheers. I think people appreciate what I’ve done and Turn to page 19 Chicago’s Chasnoff wins leader honor
by Micki Leventhal ists. Nobody really understood or valued what The marginalization of women’s voices, par- we did. The value of story telling and first voice ticularly in the news media became apparent to Sotomayor Salome Chasnoff, founder and executive director is beginning to be understood; McCormick Foun- Chasnoff in 1995 when traveled to Beijing to Event page 9 of Beyondmedia Education, has been named a dation [the philanthropic arm of the Chicago attend the United Nations Fourth World Confer- Leader for the 21st Century by Women’s eNews Tribune] is now one of our major funders.” ence on Women. The documentary she produced in the category of “Seven Who Invent a Better Chasnoff’s journey into media activism began about the conference led to the first iteration of Future.” Chasnoff, who received the Ida B. Wells when she was a PhD student in performance Beyondmedia, which was originally established Having NIGHTCAPS with Plucky tFebruary 3, 2010 Rosenthal at Berlin. Bravery in Journalism award, will join her fel- studies at Northwestern University. As part of as a commercial venture to distribute the docu- nightspots page 12 Celebrate It low awardees at a gala celebration in New York her dissertation project she worked with a group mentary. Mr. Chicago Leather 2010 competition at Touché. page 25 May 6. of pregnant teens and produced the documen- In 2000, Beyondmedia incorporated as a In addition to the activism on behalf of wom- tary “Looking at Teen Motherhood: The Fantas- not-for-profit educational organization. Today, en and girls for which Chasnoff won the award, tic Moms Video.” Through the honest telling of Chasnoff leads the organization and staff in pro- nightspots she and her organization provide media educa- their own stories, the project assisted the young viding education and services in four program n tion and advocacy for LGBT youth. women in changing both their self images and areas. Girls! Action! Media!, Women and Prison, pick it up “I am really thrilled to receive this journal- status within their communities. For Chasnoff, and Q’d in Media provide their cohorts with me-
take it home Back on We show you ism award,” said Chasnoff. “It has been a bat- the experience helped crystallize the importance dia arts skills and technology to tell their own, the Rehab everything wagon. butt love. page 12 page 13 tle for us as we have been in a nether space. and validity of what she named “first voice, the Funders who support journalism saw us as the first-person accounts of lived events and experi- Turn to page 6 arts. Funders who support arts saw us as journal- ence.”
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ENTERTAINMENT Dancin’ Feats 11 Theater reviews 12 Justice Albie Sachs (above) recently Knight: Valentine’s Day 14 talked about marriage equality in South Kirby Dick interview 14 Africa. See page 6. Gays Got Talent call 15 Orgasm, Inc.; Lampanelli 16 Photo by Micki Leventhal Sandra Bernhard 17 Rugby player Gareth Thomas 19 Billy Masters 21
OUTLINES Real estate; classifieds; Pets 18 Calendar Q 20 Sports: Pride House 22
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We wish we could have invited thou- cation Center in rural Tennessee in late Janu- sands. We want to work with everyone to help —Bashing ary to create a new national LGBT direct-action inspire our community to bold action. ... We sergeant movement. Around 45 LGBT activists of varying national want to make the White House and Congress stripped of rank “We had one thing on our agenda: Discuss stature, including National Equality March take notice. And we want everyone who stands ways to build a national network of activists to leaders Kip Williams and Robin McGehee, in the way of full equality to be held account- —Project Inform demand full equality now,” said Kip Williams and met at the Highlander Research and Educa- able and wonder what just hit them.” disappointed Robin McGehee, who are best known as key orga- tion Center in rural Tennessee in late January For more information or to join the network, with Obama nizers of last year’s National Equality March on to create a new national LGBT direct-action e-mail [email protected]. (left) Washington, D.C. movement. Photo by Rex Wockner Among the famous people who have trained at “We believe that it is time to escalate our de- the Highlander Center over the years were Rosa —HBO mands through coordinated nationwide nonvio- Tennessee were people that were known activ- Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. developing biopic lent direct action, and we hope to build a broad ists, mostly younger ones who had helped Cleve —Assistance: Bill Kelley on Anita Bryant base of organizers to work with all who struggle on the march.” for justice and dignity in their lives,” they said. Williams and McGehee said the people who at- Judge in Prop 8 She was born in San Francisco in 1957 and The gathering reportedly was invitation-only tended the gathering are “sick of delays, com- grew up in Marin, thinking she might run for and all-expenses-paid. No press releases have promises and excuses.” trial outed Congress someday. As a kid, she recalls, she put been issued and details of who was there and “Some who joined us have been activists for The San Francisco Chronicle has outed Chief on a man’s suit and carried a briefcase that, what happened have been difficult to come by, many years; some are new to the movement—all U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who is over- in retrospect should have been a hint that she though Williams and McGehee answered ques- brought a vast depth of knowledge and a readi- seeing the Prop 8 same-sex marriage trial in might grow up to be gay. tions from this reporter by e-mail. ness to fight for a more just and equal world for California. Testimony has ended in the case, and “But I didn’t figure it out til I was 24,” said Veteran New York City activist Ann Northrop all,” they said. final arguments from both sides are expected Stewart. Her spouse, Carole Scagnetti, an attor- was among the attendees. Writer Dan Savage Without mentioning names, Williams and soon. ney and head of Marriage Equality USA, teases and activist legend Cleve Jones were invited but McGehee said of the attendees: “Some have According to the Chronicle, the fact that her about that. didn’t go. worked on national LGBTQ issues, such as ACT Walker, an Illinois native, is gay is actually an She was smart, as a kid, and liked theatre— According to veteran activist Larry Kramer, UP, Equality Across America and Join the Im- open secret and is widely considered to be a and that, she says, evolved naturally toward a the gathering was “bankrolled” by Jonathan pact; some were connected to organizations non-issue. See the story at http://www.sfgate. career in law. Lewis, the son of one of the founders of Pro- outside of LGBTQ rights, such as PETA, Presente. com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/ She got her law degree at University of Cali- gressive Auto Insurance. Richard Socarides, who org, Unite Here, Colorofchange.org, Greenpeace, BACF1BT7ON.DTL. fornia at Berkeley and now supervises about 100 was President Bill Clinton’s adviser on gay is- etc. In our outreach we purposefully looked for This brings up the issue of whether sexual- other attorneys in City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s sues, was “involved with helping him set it up,” those who were supporting and advocating for ity matters in this case. If Walker was straight, litigation office. Kramer said. LGBTQ working people, communities of color, would be have to recuse himself? Herrara, Stewart and a team of other attorneys “They had one open meeting at the (LGBT) and trans rights.” Writers Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross state: from that office have been defending the city’s center here (in New York City) to see if there was Williams and McGehee said there was nothing “Many gay politicians in San Francisco and law- position that same-sex couples should be able activist energy and they seemed to be pleased “secret” or exclusive about the gathering, but yers who have had dealings with Walker say the to marry. It’s a legal battle Mayor Gavin Newsom there was,” Kramer said. “The people invited to there were limited resources and space. 65-year-old jurist, appointed to the bench by engaged in February 2004, when he directed city President George H.W. Bush in 1989, has never officials to treat gay couples equally. And they’ve taken pains to disguise—or advertise—his ori- been involved in it long before this trial, Perry v. entation. They also don’t believe it will influ- Schwarzenegger. Stewart, in fact, delivered the ence how he rules” on the Prop 8 case. oral argument for the city’s position before the Ironically, Walker is the attorney who took a California Supreme Court in 2008, winning the case against the gay community, and late ac- decision that led to same-sex couples being able tivist Dr. Tom Waddell, when the U.S. Olympic to marry in the state. committee sued to deny the Gay Olympics the She’s also been serving in an unofficial role as right to use the Olympic word; they were forced a sort of sounding board for several national gay to change to Gay Games. Walker was a private legal organizations that are naturally very inter- attorney back then, representing the IOC, which ested in the outcome of the trial. Those groups had never challenged other groups from using sought to be named as intervenors in the case the word. but were rejected by U.S. District Court Chief The Chronicle reports that the Prop 8 case was Judge Vaughn Walker. actually assigned to Walker randomly. The lawyer Stewart says she sees some representatives for the pro-Prop 8 side claims they would not from the groups in the courtroom every day— make an issue of Walker’s sexuality if the case such as Shannon Minter and Christopher Stoll of goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, the paper re- the National Center for Lesbian Rights—and she ported. checks in with others, like Mary Bonauto of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. PROP 8 TRIAL “We don’t want the right hand and left hand working at cross purposes,” explained Stewart, City attorney noting that GLAD has its own litigation con- cerning same-sex marriages, awaiting action in Therese Stewart a federal court in Boston. By Lisa Keen But she’s also clear that she and San Francisco Keen News Service attorneys are not setting strategy in the case. That’s the role of Olson and Boies and she seems SAN FRANCISCO—The fact that Therese Stewart very confident about the work they’re doing. In hasn’t gotten much publicity during the land- particular, she praises Boies as “an amazing trial mark federal court trial challenging Proposition lawyer.” 8 isn’t really a surprise: Lesbians do tend to be “Nobody in the nation has the trial skills he invisible. has,” said Stewart. But Therese (pronounced tuh-REZ) Stewart On a recent afternoon, as she was walking has a fairly visible role—right up there with the away from the federal courthouse in downtown big guns of Ted Olson, David Boies and Charles San Francisco with rush hour traffic clogging up Cooper, the nationally known attorneys at the the intersection as she was preparing to cross center of the publicity. the street, a man driving a large freight truck Stewart, known as Terry to family and friends, rolled down his window and yelled out to her. gave an opening statement for the City of San “Hey!” he said. “I know you! Thank you for all Francisco, right after Olson did for the plaintiff you’ve done for us!” couples and Cooper did for the Yes on 8 defense. ©2010 by Keen News Service. All rights re- In addition, she provided a direct examination served. of George Chauncey, an expert witness on the history of gay discrimination. Feb. 10, 2010 5 vailed. Greg Harris, the only openly gay man in a candidate is not a campaign ... and I had a the General Assembly, was not opposed. Bob Mu- tremendous amount of help. It was really over- Gay eller, another out candidate, ran uncontested in whelming to get that kind of support from my the Green primary for the 47th District seat in friends and my community.” If Dalton defeats candidates the Illinois House. Republican David Akemann in November, he will The judicial races had comparable results. Last be the first out candidate in Kane County history net mixed year, Sebastian Patti made history has the first and the first judicial candidate outside of Cook openly gay person in the Illinois Appellate Court County to win; however, Dalton stressed that when he was appointed by the state’s supreme although “it would be progress for the move- results court. However, Patti was not elected to the ment, I’m not running as the gay candidate. NEWS ANALYSIS BY ANDREW DAVIS post, and Mary Rochford won. Patti will return We’re asking what is a traditionally conservative to Cook County Circuit Court since he had not collar county to put aside its prejudices and vote On Feb. 2, Illinois voters weighed in on some resigned his post there. based on qualifications—and, last night, I think unusually competitive primary races, and a few As for Cook County races, lesbian candidate they did that.” surprises emerged—with one being that gay Linda Pauel was involved in a tight Democratic Both downstate gay candidates won uncon- candidates fared better outside Cook County John Dalton. primary race for the Dolan vacancy, but ulti- tested races. Kent DeLay will compete against that they did in it. mately lost to Susan Kennedy Sullivan. On her Republican Raymond Poe in November for a seat For many candidates, the extremely low voter bent Heather Steans defeated openly gay can- Facebook page, Pauel posted Feb. 2, “Well, it in the state House (99th District), while Chris- turnout hurt them, with everything from the didate Jim Madigan, who would have been the was close...We gave it our all! Thanks so much topher Boyster is vying for a spot on the 29- weather to people not wanting to commit to one first out state senator had he prevailed tonight for all your support and encouragement. Thanks member Sanagamon County board. (Sangamon political party being factors. and in the general election, 65 percent to 35 too for your votes. I’ll be back!” Candidate County includes the state capital, Springfield.) In one of the few races that had national percent. Madigan told Windy City Times, “It was Joanne Fehn lost to John Callahan. Boyster told Windy City Times Feb. 3 that “the implications—the race for the U.S. Senate seat a tough thing to challenge a candidate who had Lesbian candidate Mary Trew had her own tight chairman of the Democratic Party called me and currently held by Roland Burris and once occu- all the ward organizations. We did our best and race, but she ultimately finished second to Steve said, ‘I think we just nominated the first openly pied by President Barack Obama—openly gay came up short. I think the things I advanced Bernstein. Trew told Windy City Times that she gay man in the history of the city.’” In Novem- candidate Jacob Meister withdrew Jan. 31, and as my priorities and that I critiqued about the was “disappointed” but was “pleased with how ber, Boyster will compete against Bill Moss, a threw his support behind State Treasurer Alexi establishment are things I still believe in. I’m we did.” There were six Democratic candidates two-term incumbent who is vice-chair of the lo- Giannoulias. Meister told Windy City Times, “It’s very glad we did what we did.” in the Cook County Circuit Court, 9th Subcircuit, cal Republican party. about party unity. ... I’ve gotten repeated and In the 5th District (Illinois House), incumbent “A” vacancy race. very in-depth assurances from him about his Ken Dunkin fought back a stiff challenge from In the race for Metropolitan Water Reclamation Governor’s race; Cohen dedication to the LGBT principles, and that he openly gay candidate David Schroeder in the District commissioner, Todd Connor finished fifth There were only two candidates in the Demo- is willing to ‘burn political capital’ to move the Democratic primary. in a contest in which the top three vote-getters cratic primary for governor—but they waged a agenda forward. And he has guaranteed that he Also, in the only race to feature two openly in each party moved on to the November elec- war of words that made the race extremely tight. is going to work with me, and he is going to gay candidates, incumbent Democratic state Rep. tion. On his Facebook page, he acknowledged On Feb. 4, Dan Hynes conceded to Pat Quinn adopt my policy agenda.” Giannoulias eventually Deb Mell (40th District) defeated Joe Laiacona his supporters, writing, “I cannot thank you all after a vote in which the current governor won won by a slim margin over former Chicago In- 66 percent to 34 percent. Mell, who currently enough for such a great effort—I am so proud by fewer than 7,000 votes. spector General David Hoffman; Cheryle Jackson does not have a general-election opponent, told to know and be associated with so many great The lieutenant governor’s race—which usually finished third. Windy City Times, “I really love my area, and I’m people!” does not receive much press—got plenty of ink, With Republican Scott Brown winning the U.S. just really honored that they like the job I do— thanks to Democrat Scott Lee Cohen, who with- Senate seat in Massachusetts formerly held by but there’s still a lot of work to do, and I’m just Outside Cook County drew after a firestorm that included allegations the late Ted Kennedy, the White House has defi- going to continue.” John Dalton easily won the Democratic primary of domestic abuse, a relationship with a pros- nite interest in the winner of the Illinois race. Another gay candidate, Ed Mullen, ran against for the 16th Circuit, Kane, “A” vacancy. Follow- titute and financial troubles. (Quinn said Feb. Some interesting and hard-fought races took Dan Farley and Ann M. Williams in the Demo- ing his victory, he told Windy City Times, “[The 8 that Cohen should not be reimbursed for the place for seats in the Illinois General Assembly. cratic primary for the 11th District seat in the win] was very humbling. As I said last night to $2 million Cohen personally put into his own In the 7th District (Illinois Senate), incum- Illinois House, but finished third; Williams pre- the people gathered at my house last night, campaign.) BDG:B6A:7DC9>C< I=6C67::G8DBB:G8>6A# =ZgZ^c@ZnLZhi!i]ZgZÉhbdgZiZhidhiZgdcZdciVei]VcVcndi]Zg\VnYZhi^cVi^dc#CdldcYZg@ZnLZhilVhil^XZcVbZY;Vkdg^iZGZhdgiIdlcWnDjiIgVkZaZg# fla-keys.com/gaykeywest ~ 1-866-904-0543 -#4+7 7INDY #ITY 4IMES ,/ s X 6 Feb. 10, 2010 While believing that “the antiquity of a preju- burg to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents releasing Nelson Mandela from jail and recogniz- dice is no reason for its survival,” Sachs none- and raised in an atmosphere of conscience and ing the ANC. Sachs returned to South Africa, was theless maintained that the Constitutional Court activism. He started his own trajectory in social appointed to the Constitutional Committee and “is a court for the whole nation, the gay pride justice in 1952 when he took part in the Defi- then the Constitutional Court, serving for fifteen marchers and the Christians” who believe in ance of Unjust Laws Campaign, an involvement years to help guide his country into a new era the heteronormative definition of marriage. He that marked his first arrest. At 21 Sachs began of legal equality and justice. Sachs now teaches stated that it was incumbent upon the court and practicing law in Cape Town, dedicating his and lectures internationally on the law and hu- legislature to “take belief seriously” and “convey practice to clients charged under racist statutes man rights. that in the judgment.” and repressive security laws. As is the case in the United States today, there In 1960 the new Republic of South Africa in- was a sizable contingent that expressed support stitutionalized apartheid and outlawed the Af- Common Threads for civil union for gays and lesbians, but could rican National Congress (ANC). Sachs endured event March 1 not abide having the word “marriage” applied to several arrests and in1963 he was put under a In a joint event, Common Threads founder Art such unions. The South African court however, “banning order”: he could not publish his writ- Smith will share his 50th birthday celebration maintained that separate was not equal because ings, speak publically or meet socially with more with Common Threads’ World Festival 2010 Mon- such separation negates human dignity. than one person at a time. In 1966 he married day, March 1, at Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum As the law is now written, “civil union” applies fellow activist Stephanie King and the couple Campus, 6-9 p.m. to all persons under South African law, with each went into exile in England where Sachs complet- Dozens of chefs are slated to participate in couple having the option to choose the desig- ed his doctoral studies at the University of Sus- this year’s event, including Top Chef’s Carla Hall, nation of civil union or marriage, civil partner, sex and published several books. After 11 years Gale Gand of TRU, Stephanie Izard of Girl & The husband, wife or spouse. This choice also allows and the birth of two sons, the marriage dis- Goat, Graham Elliot Bowles of Graham Elliot, for heterosexual couples who have a philosophi- solved and Sachs resettled in the new nation of Mark Mendez of Carnivale and Sarah Grueneberg cal concern with the institution of marriage to Mozambique, working with other South African Justice Albie Sachs. Photo by Micki of Spiaggia. opt for civil union and enjoy the legal benefits activists-in-exile to bring an end to apartheid. Leventhal VIP access includes a pre-event cocktail recep- and obligations of such a contract. In 1988 Sachs survived a car-bomb assassina- tion at 5 p.m. and an after-party at The James The Civil Union Act also allows for Marriage tion attempt in which he lost his right arm and Hotel at 9 p.m. Tickets are $250-$500 each; see Officers, civil and clerical, to opt out individu- the sight in one eye. www.CommonThreads.org. Justice Albie ally from performing same sex civil unions or The apartheid government of South Africa For more information, contact Linda Vavra at marriages, based on personal religious beliefs or succumbed to international pressure in 1990, 312-996-6354. Sachs on convictions. While the presentation, attended by numerous SALOME from cover gay marriage law students and professors as well as LGBT ac- tivists, was compelling and educational and it authentic stories, be they young women, cur- in South Africa was thrilling to be in the presence of such a re- rent or former female prisoners or LGBT youth . By Micki Leventhal markable person, the tactical take-away for U.S. Teach Beyondmedia works with Chicago Public marriage equality activists was necessarily lim- School teachers to integrate media arts into South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie ited, due to basic differences in constitutional existing curricula. Sachs spoke on The Secular and The Sacred: The law. “A critical piece in our work is that we take Right of Same Sex Couples to Marry at The Uni- During the Q&A, this reported asked Sachs young people through the whole process from versity of Chicago Feb. 3. It was the culminating to offer compare-and-contrast thoughts on two media literacy through production and distri- talk in a public lecture series based on his new points: the fact that the US Constitution does bution,” explained Chasnoff. “At the very be- book, Reason and Passion: The Strange Alchemy not include protections against discrimina- ginning we expose them to different media of Life and Law (Oxford University Press USA, tion on the basis of sexual orientation and our and the messages that inform the media. They 2009). Sachs is teaching at the university as the country’s constitutional and political discon- learn to employ agency and critical discrimina- first Richard & Ann Silver Pozen Visiting Profes- nect between human rights and states’ rights. tion. Many of the groups have specific identity sor in Human Rights. Understandably, Sachs demurred, saying that he issues—queer youth or girls with disability Sachs is one of the most revered and re- would not like an American judge to come to his issues—we look at representations in main- spected crusaders for human rights and dignity country and advise him on South African consti- stream and alternative media and assist them to decide how they want to address those rep- in the world. After more than 30 years as an tutional law. Salome Chasnoff. Photo courtesy of Tara resentations through their own work.” anti-apartheid activist, he served as a member Despite this, Sachs added that if South Africa Malik of South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitutional was able to find a way in law to “include people “Salome has always been thoughtful about Committee that crafted the country’s bill of who were rendered invisible” and create a more how to bring people in who are often on the rights to include prohibition of discrimination just society, our courts surely can find a way. outside,” said Mary F. Morten, 2010 recipient of “But we don’t limit sexuality to sexual behav- based on sexual orientation. “I thought it was a masterful explanation of Equality Illinois’ Freedom Award. “Whether it’s ior—it’s a much wider topic for us,” said Chas- As constitutional court justice, he authored how the case developed, the issues he needed the disability community, LGBT youth or wom- noff. “Our sexuality evolves from the very first the 2005 ruling that declared as unconstitution- to balance as a judge, and how South Africa en who have been incarcerated, her work has moment of life. We talk about self-perception, al common law definition of marriage as being came to be one of the few countries in the world always been about inclusion and access. Under self-expression, relationships and what we ex- “between one man and one woman.” The rul- to treat LGBT people with complete equality in her leadership at Beyondmedia, the group re- pect for ourselves from those relationships. ing stated that the exclusion of same-sex mar- terms of marriage rights,” said Douglas M. Fos- ally addresses how they think outside of the Queer youth have no [positive] images, as riages in South Africa law “represented a harsh ter, associate professor of journalism at Medill at more traditional uses of media to reach com- straight you do, with which to build behavior if oblique statement by the law that same-sex Northwestern University and author of the forth- munities that are underrepresented and often for their early romantic ideations.” couples are outsiders, and that their need for coming book At the End of the Rainbow: South marginalized in the mainstream.” Young filmmakers with Q’d in Media have affirmation and protection of their intimate re- Africa’s New Struggle for Freedom (W.W. Norton, Q’d in Media works with LGBT youth to cre- also produced Can LGBT + School = Safe?, a lations as human beings is somehow less than 2011). “The decision he authored on behalf of ate media products that assist them in orga- video that explores the problems experienced that of heterosexual couples.” The finding, in the Constitutional Court pressed Parliament to nizing and educating communities, both gay by queer youth in school settings and offers response to a suite brought by a lesbian couple, do the right thing, and so the result was shared, and straight. In collaboration with Broadway solutions including how to start a Gay-Straight mandated that the legislature had one year to in a sense, between the judiciary and the legis- Youth Center of the Howard Brown Health Cen- Alliance at school. A third video in the Q’d se- rewrite the law. lative branches. ter and About Face Theater, Beyondmedia pro- ries is A Fish (almost) Eaten by a Shark, which The year-long struggle that ensued between “I suppose the steps the advocates took serve duced HIV: Hey It’s Viral, a sex-positive video tells the story of a young Latina woman try- South African marriage equality advocates and as a reminder, for us, that this battle, like every addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and activism ing to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at Schurz proponents of a traditional religious definition struggle for equality, needs reinforcing pressure from a youth perspective. Chasnoff said that high school and confronting her principal’s ho- of marriage resulted in the landmark civil-union in the courts, in the Congress, on the presi- the DVD has been approved by the Chicago mophobia. bill that states, in part: “Civil Union means the dent—but also family-to-family, door-to-door, Public Schools and will be in every Chicago Chasnoff encourages queer youth to get in voluntary union of two persons who are both 18 and in the streets,” concluded Foster. high school by the fall. The team is currently touch with Beyondmedia through the Web years of age or older….” Albie Sachs was born in 1935 in Johannes- conducting teacher training with CPS physical site. “We work with interns every semester,” education/health education teachers. A team she said. “Become active. Start a GSA at your from Children’s Memorial Hospital is evaluating school. Beyondmedia will provide support and Brothas Saving Brothas HIV: Hey, It’s Viral and once it’s approved, the partner with organizations.” DVD will be distributed nationally. This fall, Beyondmedia celebrates its 10th Be Part of a Bonding “Our goal [with the work around HIV/AIDS] year of collaborating with underserved and un- Experience Where You Will became to change the conversation around sex derrepresented communities to tell their sto- education in Chicago, to move it from being ries and organize for social justice through the fear based to being direct, compassionate, ʈ Receive for time spent! creation and distribution of media arts. Find great incentives honest open and medically accurate without out more at www.beyondmedia.org. ʈ Experience a free, everlasting retreat with all the fear and moralizing,” said Chasnoff, Women’s eNews is an alternative new source other men of color. who is developing several new projects around covering issues of particular concern to women LGBTQ sexual health targeted toward assisting and providing women’s perspectives on public For information, contact BEHIV at 773.293.4740 ext. 29 queer youth in forming and maintaining better policy. Find out more at www.womensenews. relationships, including an anti-bearbacking org. Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV) www.behiv.org campaign. Feb. 10, 2010 7 ney’s office continued to use Fiorito’s testimony The release cites states’ own cuts as well as a Activists upset against DUI arrestees until November 2009, discretionary spending limit imposed by Presi- Alvarez declined to bring charges in order to dent Barack Obama for blocking any effect the with Fiorito spare her office the embarrassment of having funding increases may have. A 2009 National prosecuted defendants with tainted testimo- Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors development ny. Windy City Times first reported the lawsuit survey revealed that states had already cut their BY SAMUEL WORLEY against Fiorito in March 2009, the same month HIV and viral-hepatitis budgets by almost $170 that Alvarez ordered a grand jury to look into his million. Members of the LGBT community expressed dis- activities. As an example of what AFC said is a nomi- may after the Cook County State’s Attorney’s of- Marubio concurred with that assessment. “I nal increase, Obama has requested seeks a $20 fice announced that it would not seek charges don’t know that they want to open that can of million increase for the AIDS Drug Assistance against police officer Richard Fiorito. Fiorito, worms,” she said. Program—much lower than the community re- who separately is the subject of a federal civil- Another attorney familiar with the case, who quest of $370.1 million. The White House’s Jeff rights lawsuit, was under investigation for alleg- asked not to be named, said that the state’s at- Crowley has responded, “We can’t fill in all the edly falsifying DUI arrest reports. torney interviewed only five of the 34 people who state budget cuts.” LGBT activists, including members of the have filed lawsuits against Fiorito. Sally Daly, a On the national front, groups such as Project Gay Liberation Network (GLN), have demanded spokesperson for Alvarez’s office, said that “in- Inform and the the American Academy of HIV charges against Fiorito, as well as his removal consistencies” between what was alleged in the Medicine have issued releases stating that they from the police force (pending results of a CPD lawsuit and what was found in the criminal in- are not entirely satisfied with the proposed in- internal affairs investigation, he is currently on vestigation accounted for that office’s decision creases. administrative duty). Those activists—as well to drop the case. Daly told Windy City Times last as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against him—accuse week that the office had “interviewed dozens of Jay Paul Deratany. Photo by Andrew Davis Fiorito of operating with an anti-gay animus, in- witnesses” over the course of the investigation. Chicago attorney cluding using anti-gay slurs over the course of Chicago Police Department spokesperson Rod- helps N.Y. gay tany said, he came out to his classmates—only arrests. erick Drew said that the internal-affairs investi- to be “taunted severely” for it. The Tonawanda Fiorito works out of the 23rd district, which gation into Fiorito is ongoing. “The decision not student’s family News reported that Michael Mangus was the sub- covers the Boystown area. to press charges,” Drew said, “means [the CPD BY SAMUEL WORLEY ject of “chronic physical and emotional abuse Mary Cay Marubio, a criminal defense lawyer doesn’t] have to put the internal review on hold by his peers,” including “at least one death who has represented some of Fiorito’s DUI ar- due to any criminal proceedings.” Chicago attorney Jay Paul Deratany—whose threat.” restees, said that she was “disappointed” at practice, The Deratany Firm, chiefly handles per- His mother Rhonda, a substitute teacher at State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s decision not to AFC: Obama AIDS sonal injury litigation—has agreed to take on the school, eventually decided to home-school pursue the investigation into Fiorito. the case of a mother who removed her gay son him. “What she wanted was a safe school envi- “I don’t think the right decision was made,” funding falls short from school after repeated bullying incidents. ronment,” Deratany said. Marubio said. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has That case, in which mother Rhonda Mangus was Instead she found herself charged with “edu- Andy Thayer—whose group, GLN, has orga- issued a press release saying that the White charged with educational neglect for attempting cational neglect”—the charge which is now be- nized protests against Fiorito—said that Alva- House’s budget, unveiled Feb. 1, does not pro- to home-school her son, Michael, was brought ing appealed. One important issue that the case rez’s office’s refusal to continue the investiga- vide nearly enough to assist HIV prevention and and is currently under appeal in New York state. revolves around, said Deratany, is the security of tion “says volumes about their disrespect toward care services across the country. The Manguses live in North Tonawanda, N.Y. students. LGBT citizens.” “Even with the nominal HIV funding increases Deratany, a prominent local figure who has “Gay and lesbian kids don’t feel safe coming Thayer alleged that of the nearly 40 plaintiffs proposed by the Obama Administration, fewer run for Cook County Board of Review, told Windy out,” he said. “A duty of a school is to provide a in the civil case against Fiorito, the state’s at- HIV prevention and care services will be pro- City Times that he learned about the Manguses safe environment to learn.” torney’s office interviewed only four. “We had vided across the country because of disastrous through his “computer guy.” After hearing the Deratany said that his firm is seeking local at- evidence they weren’t doing a serious investiga- state budget cuts, which will only widen the gap details of the case, he said that he agreed to torneys in New York to collaborate on the case, tion,” Thayer said. in unmet need,” said David Ernesto Munar, AIDS take it on pro bono. adding that they hope to work with the New He speculated that because the state’s attor- Foundation of Chicago (AFC) vice president. 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And I try to book talent that turns 20: business that produced women’s parties, mak- speaks to a pretty broad demographic and every ing good money for herself and the clubs, and year is different.” Talking with bringing together hip young lesbians during the For the 2010 event, Hanson and her crew are emergence of Lesbian Chic. once again working with “a great comedy show” Mariah “I came in when the lesbian-chic movement and “emerging artists,” although at the time of was taking off. It got a lot of flack in the begin- the interview Hanson demurred from sharing Hanson ning because it was perceived as a sell out,” said many details. With a past performer lineup that by Micki Leventhal Hanson. “But for me it is just this progression includes Sophie B. Hawkins, Pat Benatar, Mar- toward our liberalization and our liberation. We garet Cho, Joan Jett, Carmen Elektra, Suzanne Club Skirts Presents The Dinah celebrates its 20th shouldn’t be homogenous. We really need to let Westenhoefer, The Pussycat Dolls, Betty!, India anniversary March 31-April 4, and if you are a people be who they are within our own commu- Arie, Kathy Najimy, Sandra Bernhardt, Indigo woman-loving-woman and don’t know what The nity.” Girls, En Vogue and—just last year—Katy Perry Dinah is you are likely old-school, sports-free, Hanson had been to Palm Springs during the and Lady Gaga, Hanson clearly has a commit- crunchy-granola, nightclub-free or have been golf tournaments, scoped out the growing but ment to top talent and a remarkable instinct for living under a rock in terms of popular culture— decentralized party scene and thought she could identifying the Next Hot Thing. or a combination of several or all the above. do better. She did, attracting 1,200 women In addition to the entertainment events, of For those not in the know, The Dinah is by far to the first Dinah. For many years, Club Skirts course, are the parties: pool parties, cocktail the largest of a number of celebratory events that teamed up with the Los Angeles-based Girl Bar, parties, dinner parties, dance parties and “go- have grown up around the Ladies Professional but that partnership split in 2006 and since go” parties. There are also the Dinah Comic , wet Golf Association (LPGA) tournament held each then Hanson has focused on making The Dinah T-shirt, “Hottest Lesbian” and the lube-wrestling Debbie Allen. Photo by Emmanuel Garcia spring in Palm Springs, Calif. In 1972, singer the event for the annual Lesbian pilgrimage to contests. and television personality Dinah Shore founded Palm Springs. Despite the admittedly bacchanalian atmo- the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship and She appears to be successful. According to her sphere, there is also a political/cultural mo- the golf weekend and surrounding festivities press release, in 2009 The Dinah welcomed more tivation for Hanson, who sits of the board of Debbie Allen became forever associated with her name. The than 10,000 women, a number that represents Equality California and is a staunch supporter for vibe between lesbians and women’s golf being about a 50-percent market share for the week- marriage equality. talks art what it is, Sapphically-inclined women have for end lesbian festivities. “I’ve been pioneering sponsorships for 20 decades trekked to Palm Springs to see and be “What I try to do is throw the best event that years and, at the beginning, sponsors weren’t at Columbia seen—and perhaps play some golf. By the late I can and then I look at what I did last year and putting money into the lesbian market at all, BY EMMANUEL GARCIA 1980s, folks were beginning to slowly open their I try to outdo it. If you make your customers barely into the gay market. Now it’s a sponsor’s dream market and that translates into good for Emmy Award-winning actress and choreogra- the community. Advertising changes paradigms,” pher Debbie Allen was the guest speaker Feb. said Hanson. 2 as part of a series for Columbia College Chi- While the perception of LGBT activism might cago’s African Heritage Month. Allen dined be more subtle with The Dinah than outright with a group of students before she arrived to political organizations and PACs, “everything a packed hall at the Ludington Building, 1104 we’re doing is positive and its end goal is civil S. Wabash. A video montage described Allen as rights,” said Hanson. “You’ve got a town like a renaissance woman in the entertainment in- Palm Springs, a Republican town that would not dustry for her multifaceted career as a dancer, contract with me until six months out because choreographer, producer and actor. The video they didn’t want to commit to a lesbian group was followed by a solo dance performance by if they could get any other business. Now all of Columbia College student BreAnne Ashley, 20, to a sudden, whether it was because we made so Sade’s “Jezebel.” Vice President of Institutional much money for them or maybe it’s because this Advancement Eric Winston introduced Allen to a group is so great, they fight [to book the event]. standing ovation. It’s just really fun and uplifting and empower- Allen gave a candid motivational speech about ing; these hotels love this group. All those little the importance of looking inward to self and things add up. Yeah, it’s a party, but it’s more outward into the world to discover the artistic than a party.” voice. “You have to know what’s happening in The acts at this year’s event include Salt-n- the world, because what is your art, your jour- Pepa, Rosie O’Donnell and Ke$ha. 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(BEHIV) will partner with Chicago-area members This year’s theme is “TV LAND: Outside the QUOTELINES of CLAW (Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend) Box,” which will incorporate naughty twists to BY REX WOCKNER Nation, for a fundraiser to support BEHIV’s life- classic shows. Chicago Takes Off has raised more saving programs. than $300,000 for TPAN, making it the second- This year’s event will be Saturday, Feb. 27, 9 largest fundraiser for the organization. Q “It has been quite a journey for (Prop “To learn more about how you can be p.m.-12 a.m., in the Club Room of Touché, 6412 Tickets are $50-$300. Please visit www. ChicagoTakesOff.org or www.TPAN.com. 8 federal case lawyer) Ted Olson. He’s a part of the Epic Movement for Equal N. Clark. Admission is $25 per person or $40 per gone from being the conservative lawyer who Rights. Visit The Human Rights Campaign couple, and is required for entry. Raffle and auc- helped crown W. by winning the Bush v. Gore at http://www.hrc.org/ and support the True tion items will be available for purchase during case before the Supreme Court, to being a Colors Fund. This Year I Resolve to Join the the reception, as well as during other activities Pornuary at lesbian. ‘Maureen,’ he told me in his gravelly Conversation on Equality. I will Stand Up and running until the bar closes. All proceeds will Brown Elephant voice, ‘one of the biggest lesbian groups in be outspoken about Same Sex Marriage and benefit BEHIV. this country told me I’m already an honorary Let Freedom Sing.” — Top-10 pop singer Jason See www.behiv.org for more information. thru Feb. 14 lesbian.’” — New York Times columnist Maureen Mraz on his blog, Dec. 31. Howard Brown Health Center’s Brown Elephant Dowd, Jan. 16. Chicago Takes Off Resale Shop, 3651 N. Halsted, is holding its “(I don’t talk about my personal life) porn sale, Pornuary, through Sunday, Feb. 14. “We’re going to explain why allow- because I don’t want to bore people stiff back March 6 The Brown Elephant is also accepting dona- ing same-sex couples to have that same with my dreary, dysfunctional, endlessly re- Co-chairs Adam Colangelo, Kyle Heath, Dan tions. For more info, see www.howardbrown. right that the rest of us have is not going to peating similar relationships that last from Paterno and Paul Trout will host the 4th annual org. hurt heterosexual marriages. It has no point three weeks to three months to nine months Chicago Takes Off. A production of HIV/AIDS at all except some people don’t want to rec- or whatever.” — Gay actor Rupert Everett to ognize gays and lesbians as normal, as human Britain’s The Guardian, Nov. 29. beings.” — Prop 8 federal case lawyer Ted Olson to The New York Times, Jan. Sotomayor ‘comes home’ 16. The case is ongoing in San Francisco. (In) the naughty aughties ... even “There are now three classes of Califor- celebrities ... nians: heterosexual cou- couldn’t help ples who can get married, Tweeting their divorced, and remarried, if every thought. they wish; same-sex cou- —Michael Musto ples who cannot get mar- ried but can live together in domestic partnerships; and same-sex couples who are now married but “(In) the Naughty Aughties ... even who, if they divorce, cannot remarry. This is an celebrities—who’d long built up a wall of irrational system, it is discriminatory, and it privacy by hiding behind lying publicists— cannot stand.” — Federal Prop 8 case lawyer couldn’t help Tweeting their every thought, Ted Olson writing in Newsweek, Jan. 9. The trial caught up in the universal need to connect, in the lawsuit arguing that Prop 8 violates the to emit, to admit, and to bore.” — Gay Village U.S. Constitution began Jan. 11 in San Fran- Voice columnist Michael Musto, Dec. 29. cisco. “I’ve been in a relationship (with Ryan “The single biggest reason Obama’s Spahn) for a while now, and if you just eighteen years after his death from AIDS complications, Chicago AIDS activist Danny So- hope bubble burst is because of the unin- met the two of us together we’d be ‘gay.’ But tomayor “came home” as part of an exhibit at the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture tended convergence of left and right opinion- that somehow means anything that happened in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. making. The cauldron of opinion that churns before (we met) didn’t count—and I don’t feel a gay Puerto Rican/Mexican man, he grew up in Humboldt Park but was not always ac- incessantly on blogs, Twitter, social networks, that way. I know that some people feel that cepted there. Now, the institute is fully embracing him with an exhibit of his editorial and in the elite media generates the storylines way. They were with women, but it always felt cartoons, photos of him in ACT UP and other remembrances, including a famous protest that filter across the national and local press, wrong. But it didn’t for me. It felt right at the sign against Mayor Daley. The exhibit is up through early March at 3015 W. Division, but a providing the fodder for public opinion. Stal- time. It didn’t work out, but it also didn’t work special event Feb. 5 marked the 18th anniversary of Sotomayor’s death. warts of the left, dedicated to principles not out with other men—many times. That’s why Jose Lopez, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, welcomed Sotomayor personalities, hammered the administration; ‘gay’ never seemed right.” — Ugly Betty actor in strong language condemning homophobia in the Latino communities. Juan Calderon, couple that with the partisan criticisms from Michael Urie, who plays Marc St. James, to The director of Vida/SIDA, and Marilyn Morales, an institute board member, were the forces conservatives and libertarians, and the net Advocate, February issue. behind the exhibit at the institute, while Sotomayor friends Lori Cannon and Victor Salvo effect was to alter conventional wisdom and are the curators of materials commemorating the sharp-witted and talented artist’s short undercut Obama’s image and message.” — For- life. Cannon told stories of both Sotomayor and his late partner, the writer Scott McPherson mer Hillary Clinton adviser Peter Daou writing at —Assistance: Bill Kelley (Marvin’s Room). Huffington Post, Jan. 20. Dr. Gabriel Gomez (right photo), a professor of library science at Chicago State University, was the featured speaker. 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Tracy Baim rehwinkel CBS spokeswomen Shannon Jacobs, while ad- The first leaked commercial, entitled “Lola,” ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky dressing the ManCrunch controversy, stated that, features the fictional tale of a former pro foot- MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis “after reviewing the ad, which is entirely com- ball player who, after football, decided to follow BUSINESS MANAGER Meghan Streit mercial in nature, our standards and practices his dream of becoming a truly fabulous fashion DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright department decided not to accept this particular designer and is able to get started by setting ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson ACCOUNT MANAGERS: Terri Klinsky, Amy Matheny, CBS does spot.” ManCrunch’s representatives have gone up his very own design Web site with GoDaddy. Kirk Williamson on record as saying that the rejection letter they com. PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Cynthia Holmes received from CBS explained that their commer- The other ad depicts two geeky men creating NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING EDITOR Kirk Williamson it again cial was “not within the Network’s broadcast multiple domain names with GoDaddy.com be- NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie standards for Super Bowl Sunday.” cause every time they set up a new url Danica CBS just can’t seem to get the Super Bowl J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, Really, CBS? I can understand if the higher-ups Patrick dances provocatively in a skimpy outfit Yasmin Nair, Emmanuel Garcia right. at the Columbia Broadcasting System decided to on their laptop. THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan In 2007, the last time CBS broadcasted the reshape the station’s image into one of moral Let’s see: A story of a fabulous fashion de- CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair game, the station ran into controversy when it rightness—that’s right as in not left, and has signer, highlighting plenty of gay stereotypes, showed the now infamous “Snickers kiss com- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS nothing to do with not being wrong—but, per- and an ad featuring near nudity. Seems like an Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, mercial,” which told the story of two male me- plexingly, CBS managed to fall short on even open-and-shut case for the “moral” CBS, right? Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Catey Sullivan, chanics who accidentally kiss after trying to eat building up this mode. Ban them both, right, CBS? Zachary Whittenburg, Jonathan Abarbanel COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Susie the same Snickers bar. Over the past few years, most of the contro- Well, the station got halfway there and decid- In a rare show of ideological concordance, the Day, Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Lisa versy involving Super Bowl ads has come from ed the ex-football player with a dream was not Keen, Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Mark Corece, commercial managed to draw ire from both the the puerile advertising department at GoDaddy. CBS-worthy, while the skimpily dressed online Sabine Neidhardt, Sam Worley, Billy Masters, John right, who predictably disliked the commercial’s com. sex show was green lighted as “meeting Net- Fenoglio, Chuck Colbert, Micki Leventhal, Sarah Toce, Rachel Pepper “homosexual undertones,” and the left, who If you haven’t had the pleasure of stumbling work’s standards for Super Bowl Sunday.” took offense to the ad’s stereotypical displays of PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, Hal upon a GoDaddy commercial, let me present the So what does this all mean? To me it shows Baim, Steve Starr, Emmanuel Garcia masculinity. basic structure to you: Spokeswomen Danica that CBS is not just heterosexist and anti-fem- CIRCULATION Three years later, CBS managed to stub its toe Patrick is barely clothed or surrounded by barely inine, but is stuck so far behind the times that CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright once again, with an even more controversial clothed models and, after a series of events that homophobic chauvinists from the 1980s might DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, Sue and Victor crop of Super Bowl commercials. resembles a lead-up to a bad porn flick, Patrick be hard-pressed to defend the station’s logic. Over the past few weeks, women’s advocacy tells the audience to go to GoDaddy.com to set I can’t wait to see if CBS’ standards will have groups have been telling anyone who will lis- up their very own domain name—because noth- progressed to a point that they represent any- ten that CBS has shown its socially regressive ing screams hot action like a new URL for your thing close to modern ideas about respect and hand this year by allowing a Focus on the Family online custom T-shirt company. tolerance by the station’s next Super Bowl sponsored pro-life ad to run during the big game. Anyway, this year CBS was given a golden op- broadcast in 2013. They probably won’t, but one And the failure by CBS to include a commercial portunity to prove the “straightness of their can certainly hope. created by the gay dating site ManCrunch.com, moral compass” when GoDaddy submitted three Chasse Rehwinkel is a blogger who is also a which shows two male football fanatics locked 30-second commercials for the Super Bowl. Two contributing reporter for Windy City Times. in a tender—albeit extremely un-genuine—em- Copyright 2010 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media licans, to consider Mr. Olsen’s arguments on is diminished when any group is denied rights Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back the merits, both in his opening statement and granted to others.” issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, MARGARET throughout the trial’s ensuing three weeks. 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In the event that majority rule insuf- and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of rently denied to an entire class of American citi- ficiently protects individual liberty, our system a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy Why I’m joining zens. This is unconstitutional. of checks and balances puts forth that it is the City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the We Republicans have often found ourselves on role of the courts, to guarantee and protect the sexual orientation of such person or organization. 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[Ed- formances before the nation’s highest judicial sibility in even my childhood—many who are itor’s note: The trial is currently on hiatus.] body. He is Theodore “Ted” Olsen, a founder of older than me fear that if gays and lesbians can Margaret Hoover is a conservative commen- the Federalist Society, constitutional law expert marry, what’s next? They worry that homosexual tator and Fox News contributor. This view- and one of the most respected conservatives in marriage degrades the integrity of heterosexual point originally appeared on FoxNews.com “Windy City Media Group generated America. marriage. They fear that their children might be and was submitted to Windy City Times by the enormous interest among their readers in this year’s LGBT Consumer Index Mr. Olsen thinks constitutionally guaranteed exposed to alternative lifestyles that will impact the Griffin/Schake communications firm. Survey. 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And as a proud Republican rep- attention to this trial, the plaintiffs, the defense Andrew@WindyCityMediaGroup. media in the U.S. Only survey partners resenting a younger generation of conservatives and the spectrum of experts, historians, psy- com. that cherish individual freedom, I am honored to with a nationwide footprint were chologists, economists, political scientists, who Items may be able to generate a greater number of join the American Foundation for Equal Rights’ will testify as to the effects and detriment of (AFER’s) advisory board. edited for responses.” —David Marshall, Research Proposition 8. In the words of NAACP chairman length or clarity. Director, Community Marketing, Inc. I encourage everyone, but especially Repub- Julian Bond, “The humanity of all Americans Feb. 10, 2010 11 GOINGS-ON WINDY CITY TIMES’ ENTERTAINMENT SECTION Photo by Michael Brosilow ‘BROTHER’ SUPERIOR From left: Glenn Davis, Phillip James Brannon and K. Todd Freeman star in Steppenwolf’s The Brother/Sister Plays. See page 15. SPORTS MOVIES PROFILE House party. Valentine’s nay. Simply Sandra. Page 22. Page 14. Page 17. Photo courtesy of Dean Nelson Photo by Jasmine Hirst In the theme of love that comes up around this etition that is both dreamlike and maddening. Dancin’ Feats time of the year, Siegenfeld will premiere a duet Troika Ranch will perform at the Dance Center By Alicia Wilson that is an exploration of a wry romance between of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan, March two people. The dance is backed by a quartet 4-6 at 8 p.m.; tickets are $24-28. For more infor- This month the selection of dance performances of scat-singing cupids based on the words of mation, call 312-369-8330 or visit www.colum. is full of kinetic movement, classical story, tech- the Gershwin brothers and the music of James edu/dancecenter. nological feats and spirited fun. Whether you Brown. are looking for a place to take a Valentine’s date, The performances will take place at the Dance seeking out high-energy entertainment, or just Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan, 8 needing a pick me up from the dreary winter, be p.m., Feb. 18-20; tickets are $24-28. For more CRITICS’ PICKS sure to check out what is happening in the Chi- information, call 312-369-8330 or visit www. cago dance scene in the next few weeks. colum.edu/dancecenter . River North Chicago Dance Company (RNCDC) Troika Ranch is based in New York City and Kink, Annoyance Theatre, through March continues its 20th-anniversary season with a Berlin Germany, and comes to Chicago with its 6. Director Rebecca Sohn oversees just an- Valentine’s Day-weekend performance showcas- newest evening-length work “Loopdiver,” which other day in suburban paradise with Mom as ing a variety of choreographers. The evening follows its fall 2009 premiere. Led by co-Artistic the closet dominatrix and Dad as the closet will feature a world premiere by Robert Battle, Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello, cross-dresser. Meanwhile, the kids are get- artistic director of New York’s Battleworks Dance this company seeks to create art that best re- ting ready for that freakiest event of all: Company. Also by Battle is a solo entitled “Ella,” flects and engages contemporary society. The high school homecoming. CS which celebrates the vocals of Ella Fitzgerald. name Troika Ranch comes out of Conigilo and August: Osage County, Cadillac Palace Lauri Stallings returns to RNCDC with her world Stoppiello’s creative methodology. This process Theatre, through Feb. 14. You’ll kick your- premiere entitled “Suppose.” Stallings is an in- involves a hybrid of dance, theater and media self if you end up missing Tracy Letts’ epic demand, cutting-edge choreographer, and her that makes up three elements working together dysfunctional family drama—especially if work explores connections of emotion and form (Troika) in cooperative interaction (The Ranch). you consider the high caliber cast (or if Troika Ranch. Photo by Alexandra Matzke through highly physical movement. RNCDC Artis- In the 1990s, Troika Ranch was one of the pio- you missed it the first time around back in tic Director Frank Chaves returns his work “For- neers in an emerging field known as Dance and 2007). SCM bidden Boundaries,” and Sherry Zunker brings For more information call 800-982-2787 or visit Technology. Its work is driven by the concept Hughie/Krapp’s Last Tape, Goodman back “Evolution Of A Dream” from the company’s www.joffrey.org. of interaction from inspiration to presentation Theatre, through Feb. 21. Eugene O’Neill’s fall show. Jump Rhythm Jazz Project continues the cel- of the dance. Troika Ranch produces live per- lonely old man struggles against the dy- The performances will take place at the Harris ebration of its 20th-anniversary season with a formances, interactive installations and digital ing light, while Samuel Beckett’s embraces Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph, performance at the Dance Center of Columbia films, combining traditional elements with ad- it—and Brian Dennehy plays them both to 8 p.m. Feb. 12-13; $30-$65. For more informa- College. This company is known for its vocal- vanced technologies. perfection in this double bill. MSB tion, call 312-334-7777 or visit www.harristhe- rhythmic technique that emphasizes full-bodied “Loopdiver” comes out of a two-year process The Year of Magical Thinking, Court The- aterchicago.org. rhythm-making to express inner energies. “Jump involving motion capture and Coniglio’s Isadora atre, through Feb. 14. Her husband dropped The Joffrey Ballet presents Cinderella at The Rhythm Technique” was developed by Artistic software, a programming environment that pro- dead as her daughter lay dying, launching Auditorium Theatre. This classic story of rags to Director Billy Siegenfeld, and is geared to all vides interactive control and real-time manipu- writer Joan Didion’s remarkable struggle riches is expressed through the technically stun- people who love moving to the beat. lation of digital media. Technology maintains with the concept and reality of grief. Mary ning dancers of The Joffrey and choreographed The company won an Emmy in 2007 for the its perfection and precision in this dance that Beth Fisher channels Didion in this solo by Sir Frederick Ashton. As is tradition in this documentary Getting There: Jump Rhythm derives movement and multimedia elements work. JA ballet, male dancers portray the overbearing, Jazz Project. The works that come out of Jump from interwoven loops of prerecorded material. evil stepsisters. The production is set to Serge Rhythm Technique are high-energy and move- Elements caught in this loop include movement, —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, Prokofiev’s gorgeous musical score, with sets ment-driven story dances. Jump Rhythm Jazz text and digital media such as video, sound and Morgan and Sullivan and costume design by David Walker. backs its movement with beat-rich music such light. A juxtaposition of technology and human Performances will take place Auditorium The- as blues-and-funk-based rock, jazz and world beings is created as the Troika Ranch dancers atre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress. The music. Their program is a mixture of premieres are put up against these loops of technology, shows are various times Feb. 17-28; $25-$145. and classics, all choreographed by Siegenfeld. struggling to escape the externally imposed rep- 12 Feb. 10, 2010 THEATER REVIEW Well, his ancestors and brother are stereotypes and/or clichés of African-American heritage. The Brother/ Their stories are powerful and they represent the frequent reality of American Black history, but Sister Plays: that doesn’t make them compelling, nor does it In the Red and Brown make their arbitrary appearances on stage less Water, The Brothers forced. What does make them compelling is au- Size, Marcus; or thor Tanya Barfield’s rich, poetic language and rhythms when actor Lindsay Smiling—playing The Secret of Sweet all three spirit figures—revs up the storytelling. Playwright: Tarell Alvin McCraney Maybe Barfield should forget dramatic structure At: Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted and just tell stories. Phone: 312-335-1650; $20-$70 There’s undeniable American truth in Blue Runs through: May 23 Door—the title represents the color believed to protect family unity—of which I’m witness and BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE heir. My father went from impoverished child of immigrant parents to the Upper Middle Class in It was a smart idea for the playbill to includes one generation, without benefit of college. Of a genealogy chart. Each of the three stories course, he was white. Lewis—like many African comprising the collectively-titled Brother/Sis- Americans—can count five or six generations ter Plays may be viewed individually, but it is The Brother/Sister Plays. Photo by Michael Brosilow on this continent with few of the opportunities almost impossible not to unite them into a com- open to my father. prehensive saga depicting three generations of a third-person narrative. weekends. But make no mistake—McCraney is a At the end of Blue Door, Lewis sings a long- rural bayou-country community at once familiar Thus, the actor playing, say, Shango may say star on the rise. No matter in what increments forgotten African song with great-grandfather and exotic. Before we are done, we will see one to us “Shango smiles,” before doing so—a tech- you discover this for yourself, you won’t be sor- Simon: a song taught to Simon by his African- character lose both the wife and the brother he nique facilitating intellectual distance that, in ry. born mother and which Simon taught—at 100 or loves, through no fault of his own. Two men will turn, allows short rest periods within our em- so—to baby great-grandson Lewis. But Barfield be destroyed by their unavowed affection for pathetic involvement (this is not an excuse to THEATER REVIEW leaves the jury out on what impact this night one another, the women who bear them children zone out, however, since the spoken “stage will have on Lewis. His journey of reconnec- likewise emerging emotionally crippled—and directions” often reveal important insights as Blue Door tion is far from complete and even some Black what of the offspring whose history is a legacy well). There are also soliloquies and asides, con- Playwright: Tanya Barfield observers may question its authenticity and/or of intrigue and silence? fidences delivered at us with full eye contact. At: Victory Gardens Biograph, necessity. We are stuck in the architecture of the Tarell Alvin McCraney recounts these tales in There is music, too—some integrated into the 2433 N. Lincoln play which, in a way, leaves the house without a language that shifts smoothly from the weighty action as a reflection of the ethnic culture, and Tickets: 773-871-3000; roof. oratory we associate with the late August Wil- some rooted in bedroom singalongs to the ra- victorygardens.org; $20-$48 Veteran trouper Bruce A. Young inhabits Lewis son to the vivid imagery characteristic of the dio. Runs through: Feb. 28 with a combination of world-weary defensive- regional idiom (where a taciturn lad is accused The total time required for these chronicles ness and puzzlement. As Lewis’ relatives, Smil- of being “shy between the teeth”), enhanced by is three hours and 40 minutes, but this is not BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL ing equals the imposing Young in his command- lyrical descriptive passages—in particular, odes another August: Osage County. Steppenwolf ing voice and physical stature, so that one truly of a sensuality bespeaking the gay status of both Theatre’s repertory arrangement permits play- Every play has architecture—inciting incidents, seems the youthful embodiment of the other. playwright McCraney and director Tina Landau. goers to attend the two-hour double-ticket of central conflict and expository material—upon Director Andrea J. Dymond doesn’t impose an in- But what keeps the dramatic flow from miring The Brothers Size and Marcus; or The Secret of which hang the play’s dialogue, imagery and terpretation. Her staging is simple and effective down in verbal density (did I mention the many Sweet, or the 100-minute In the Red and Brown tone. The difficulty with Blue Door is architec- on Keith Pitts’s unit set featuring Liviu Pasare’s significant dreams related by the dreamers?) is a Water, on different nights, while fans of festival ture that’s awkward compared to the richness of fluid video designs. presentation style reminiscent of Story-Theatre theater can take in all three in a single day on language and spirit hanging upon it. This two-character, 95-minute play concerns Lewis, a sixtysomething African-American pro- NOW PLAYING! fessor at a prestigious university. The first col- lege-educated member of his family, Lewis rose Online This Week: from the underclass through academic achieve- ment and assimilation, marrying a white wife. Now, in 1995, she’s left him because he refused ——The Island to join the Million Man March and remember his T H E O L D blackness. Alone and fueled by insomnia, soul- searching Lewis confronts the specters of his ——Distracted great-grandfather, grandfather and brother rep- resenting (respectively) the slave forebear, the SETTLER forebear lynched while trying to vote, and the ——Awake and Sing! BY JOHN HENRY REDWOOD drug-taking sibling whose life ended violently. DIRECTED BY RON OJ PARSON For his part, Lewis argues his entire Upper Mid- www.windycitymediagroup.com Performed at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe dle Class success is the result of his being better than the best and overcoming stereotypical as- sumptions. SPOTLIGHT Two women test the bonds of sisterhood No, this isn’t John Van Druten 1951 and find the strength Broadway adaptation of Christopher Isherwoods’ Berlin Stories (which also and forgiveness only inspired the 1966 musical Cabaret). In- family can offer. stead, I Am A Camera is Greg Allen’s new photography-centered theatrical ex- periment to question how visual imagery shapes our memory and the world we live ORDER YOUR TICKETS TODAY! in. I Am A Camera plays 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays until March 13 at the WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland. Tickets are $10-$15; call 773-275-5255 or visit 847-242-6000 www.neofuturists.org. Photo by Greg Al- Production Sponsor Media Sponsor WRITERS’ len THEATRE Feb. 10, 2010 13 © 2010 Viacom Inc. All rights reserved. Mondays 9/8c “INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE” Entertainment Weekly Channel 143 RPDRS2_TabAd_WindyC_10x13MockUp_v1.indd 1 1/28/10 2:30 PM 14 Feb. 10, 2010 cent film trailers like Taking Woodstock and A gue, get frostbite and stick to the chairlift (like Single Man, one would have hoped Valentine’s the kid sticking his tongue on the flagpole in A Day wouldn’t have gone down the same road of Christmas Story) until the last act, when one of KNIGHT gay invisibility. At least one of the trailers, post- them finally decides to take action. ers or production stills could have thrown us a Without a supernatural/sci-fi/criminal angle AT bone and shown the duo together. Our People there aren’t a lot of possibilities unlike, say, THE deserve better than this, Hollywood. Open Water, which managed to stay terrifying because you knew at any second those sharks MOVIES Writer-director Adam Green who has specialized could come back. With Frozen, it’s Adam Green in the horror genre now brings us Frozen, a not- who has a lot more than the elements to fend bad (though far from great) reason for a chilly off; there’s that fickle audience—bored, snap- winter night out at the movies. Three college kids pish and impatient—inclined to give his okay (Shawn Ashmore of the AIDS drama 3 Needles, movie the big chill. Jamie Babbit’s The Quiet and the X-Men series; Kevin Zegers who played gay in Transamerica; Film note: and TV star Emma Bell) can’t afford the price —The Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, is going of three lift tickets during a trip to their local all out for Valentine’s Day with a weekend of Bradley Cooper in Valentine’s Day. ski resort. But after forking over $100 they’re romantic, sexy fare beginning Friday, Feb. 12, Valentine’s Day determined to get their money’s worth and they with the midnight movie cult favorite The Room. ject of lots of discussion on the Web. convince a none-too-bright chairlift operator to Star Tommy Wiseau will appear in person at both ‘de-gayed’; Frozen; With Valentine’s Day this vexing trend is com- give them one last chance at the slopes before the 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. screenings. Then on pounded by the fact that the film—which, by the place is closed for the night. Naturally, the Saturday, Feb. 13, at 7:30, for the third year in a film notes the look of the trailer, features multiple varia- chairlift is shut down and the resort quickly de- row, the Lavender Cabaret presents The Hottest By Richard Knight, Jr. tions of straight couples and singles celebrating serted, leaving our three stuck midair, facing the Night of Winter, the return of Michelle L’amour’s Valentine’s Day—actually includes a gay couple elements and who knows what else far below “Belles and Whistles” burlesque revue show. Fi- We’re Here, We’re Queer but We Ain’t in the Val- (played by Bradley Cooper and Eric Dane). But them in the icy, snowy cold? nally, on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. the historic entine’s Day Trailer: I’d thought about this time this hunky twosome are not featured together in Frozen is yet another variation on what hap- theater will present its annual Valentine’s Day of year I’d be giving you my review of Valentine’s said trailer or marketing materials for the movie. pens when some irresponsible teens/college screening of the film classic Casablanca. Joe Day, this year’s all-star rom-com being released The relationship between Cooper and Dane is kids do something they’re not supposed to and Savino hosts a special “Sweetheart Sing-Along” to coincide with the lover’s holiday (He’s Just supposed to be a surprise reveal, which offers suffer major (usually tremendously gory) conse- of classic love songs with lyrics projected on Not That Into You was last year’s), as the mov- one reason why at least earlier versions of the quences. Though the set-up plays on a common, the screen and organ accompaniment by Dennis ie has been promoted heavily for months. But trailer would suggest to audiences that Cooper usually unspoken fear among skiers and Green Scott. A portion of ticket sales for the Casablan- Warner Bros. hasn’t screened it in time to meet and Julia Roberts are a couple in the film (with keeps the suspense up for awhile, the movie ca screening will benefit Gilda’s Club of Chicago. Windy City Times’ deadlines. (Fox is doing the Dane barely glimpsed and alone). But even Coo- could have used an appearance by Bigfoot or See www.musicboxtheatre.com. same thing with The Wolfman and Paramount per, when I interviewed him last June during The some other supernatural or science- fiction crea- Check out my archived reviews at www. with Shutter Island.) Increasingly, this gun-shy Hangover press junket, had already heard that ture or element to its story (a la The Ruins). Ac- windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthemov- attitude on the part of the studios with regard the Internet was abuzz with the news about he tually, it could’ve used anything, because after ies.com. Readers can leave feedback at the to early reviews and an insistence on review was once again playing gay and coupling with one character jumps and is set upon by wolves, latter Web site. embargos (usually until the day and, at times, Dane onscreen—although he was quick to point the other two pretty much sit there and talk, ar- the exact hour of the “official” Chicago release out disappointment at the surprise being re- date) has been a particular bane for weeklies vealed. like WCT—especially when the movies in ques- Nevertheless, the cat has been out of the bag Kirby Dick tion have already opened in New York and Los for over six months about the “surprise” subplot Angeles, been reviewed and have been the sub- in the film and, in light of the de-gaying of re- expresses his ‘Outrage’ By Richard Knight, Jr. Eight months after the May 2009 release of Outrage, his third documentary with prominent gay themes (Twist of Faith and This Film Is Not Yet Rated being the others), filmmaker Kirby Dick is still outraged. That’s not just because the subjects of his latest film—ostensibly closeted politicians voting against their own kind, the shameful history of this practice and the question of outing itself—are still blithely moving forward, thanks to a pass seemingly given them by the mainstream media. It’s also because many in the mainstream media reacted Kirby Dick. to the film with kid gloves—going so far as refusing to reveal the names of some of those fighting for the same cause here, side by side.” profiled in the documentary in their coverage So I was just so surprised that they decided to (which seemed to reinforce the message of the not really even consider it. That was kind of a movie). blow. I mean an award’s just an award but it Then, just as Outrage was coming to DVD felt like your friend didn’t invite you for dinner the media-watchdog organization GLAAD by- or something. Center on Halsted passed the film in its list of nominations for WCT: And the response about why they the year’s best documentary because it didn’t didn’t consider it was so disingenuous. Oscar Party want to “glorify a movie about people who run KD: Yes. If there ever was a film that was 2010 from who they are”—an oversight that quickly eligible this one met their criteria to a “T.” I brought a disgruntled response from members think it was a number of things which I don’t Sunday, March 7 of the LGBT media. In an exclusive interview want to speculate on too much. But certainly International Ballroom, 6PM with Windy City Times, Dick was ready to give one of them, I’m sure, is that some people that Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel an update on that situation, talk about the were uncomfortable because there were obvi- history of his passion for gay injustice (he’s ously some gays and lesbians in the film that straight), and a lot more. are not portrayed in a positive light because )HDWXULQJ&RPSOLPHQWDU\&RFNWDLOVDQG+RUVGpRHXYUHV Windy City Times: What’s up with this they shouldn’t be, of course. But on the other 9,37LFNHWV LQFOXGHVUHVHUYHGWDEOHVHDWLQJDQGFRFNWDLOVHUYLFH GLAAD situation? hand, too, this is all about the heroism and *HQHUDO$GPLVVLRQ Kirby Dick: I was actually kind of hurt by persistence of gay journalists and gay activ- $WWLUH $EVROXWHO\)DEXORXVRI&RXUVH that. I had interviewed Neil Giuliano, the for- ists over the last two decades. This is really an )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQRUWRUHVHUYHWLFNHWVYLVLWZZZFHQWHURQKDVOWHGRUJ mer executive director of GLAAD. He’s in the untold story as far as the mainstream media is RUFDOO film and is very supportive of the film and concerned and these people are heroes to me SJ makes some very strong arguments about the and to a lot of people. closet and GLAAD nominated This Film Is Not Find out who Kirby Dick would’ve had ac- Yet Rated for a GLAAD award and I thought… cept an Oscar if Outrage had been nominat- WCT: A slam dunk, right? ed for an Academy Award (and won) at www. KD: Well not just a slam dunk but, “we’re WindyCityMediaGroup.com. Feb. 10, 2010 15 ‘Gays Got Talent’ searches for AUDIENCES CAN T HELP top Chicago “ ’ performers BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH CHICAGO—Windy City Media Group (WCMG) wants to show the world that “Gays Got Tal- 101 DALMATIANS!” ent.” your friends to vote for you. 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Sexy title, shows that it is dangerous, no matter what the If Orgasm, Inc. wasn’t so sadly a true docu- problem, to have the pharma industry involved mentary, it could have passed for a very funny political film in actually “creating” a disease where one did mokumentary. Review by Tracy Baim not exist before. See www.orgasminc.org. I watched this film with a group of women, in- Medical and pharmaceutical interference in what are often problems fixable through more basic NUNN ON ONE: COMEDY solutions is the focus of this excellent new docu- mentary from filmmaker Liz Canner. Orgasm, Inc. Lisa Lampanelli is showing at the Dyke Delicious series at Chica- go Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark, appropriately on gets—what else?— Valentine’s Weekend: Saturday, Feb. 13; 7 p.m. down and dirty social, 8 p.m. screening; $10; 773-293-1447. BY JERRY NUNN Canner’s access to people working on drugs and surgical solutions to the newly created disease Orgasm, Inc. director Liz Canner. Lisa Lampanelli, “Comedy’s Lovable Queen of “Female Sexual Dysfunction,” or FSD, shows just Mean,” is coming to Illinois once again, and how compromised our Western medicine really to gauge sexual response in women. Because she Windy City Times has the scoop on what makes is. FSD, in fact, was a disease diagnosis pushed worked with the company, she was able to get this comedienne tick, including her gay best in part by pharmaceutical companies develop- ground-floor interviews as the company, paral- friend. [Note: If you are easily offended, then Lisa Lampanelli. Photo by Karen Moskowitz ing the female equivalent to Viagra for men. The lel to others, worked on a “female Viagra.” The this interview might not be for you.] concern is, the orgasm-related problems many company spokespeople were surprisingly candid Windy City Times: Hi, Lisa. fags come out and it scares all the people in women face are far more complex than men ex- with Canner, perhaps both optimistic and naïve Lisa Lampanelli: Hi, homo! How’s your corn- the suburban towns. perience and, in fact, many women interviewed to her intentions. They later refused to return holer? If you are not old enough to get that WCT: You have done a lot of celebrity had orgasms—they just thought they were not her calls. reference, then fuck you. roasts. Would you want one done to you? “normal” because they did not have an orgasm Canner’s research is very compelling. She looks WCT: Of course I do. we are around the LL: Yeah; it is the biggest honor in the world during intercourse. at other companies and their drug trials, sur- same age. to be the actual subject of a roast because This is not a lesbian film and, in fact, that’s gical procedures (including plastic surgery to LL: Oh? How you doing, dirty faggot? that means people like you enough. The dirty the only disappointing aspect because Canner make women “pretty” down there), and pushes WCT: I get all your jokes. I have been reading Jews over there at Comedy Central only do it if did not address lesbian sexuality at all—except to find medical/pharma solutions to problems your book Chocolate, Please. there is money in it for them and ratings. So in a short, funny clip about a woman who is now that might be solved otherwise. Especially in- LL: Good, there ya go. So what’s happening it would mean that I am wildly popular, pretty happier with her sex life now that she’s with a teresting was a woman sales rep for a vaginal at the Windy City Times faggot newspaper? and skinny. woman. But the film is still a wonderful behind- cosmetic-surgery company—she was conflicted WCT: It’s freezing here in the Windy City! Lisa Lampanelli performs Thursday, Feb. the-scenes investigation. about the message it sent to women. LL: Are you freezing your cunt off? I know 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre, Canner’s access started several years ago when The film is also funny, including an animated exactly how you feel. 23 E. Galena, Aurora. Visit www.paramoun- she was hired to edit erotic videos for an un- “race” depicting the battle to win the FSD drug WCT: So we have to get the gays to travel taurora.com or www.livenation.com. usual pharmaceutical company using the films war. out Aurora, Ill., to see you. 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Belmont) Feb. 10, 2010 17 NUNN ON ONE WCT: When I saw Shakira trying to cover therapist. It should be out on disc very soon. “I’ll Stand By You” at the Haiti telethon, I WCT: Is there anyone you would like to work Sandra Bernhard wanted Chrissie! with in a movie but haven’t? SB: Oh, I know. SB: Oh yeah, tons of people. I would love to on life, love— WCT: You might bump into Mariah Carey work with Almodovar but my Spanish is not up when you are in town. to speed. and Mariah Carey SB: Well, you know Mariah and I have been WCT: I love him! BY JERRY NUNN destined to hang out for a long time. I have SB: I know. Listen, there are projects that done my Mariah bit. I hope by now she under- some of the young guy directors have. I think I Sandra Bernhard is celebrating V-Day in Chi-town stands that I think she is great. It’s kind of de- could fit in with a lot of different venues. It is with five performances over Cupid’s weekend. constructing pop culture. When you are a part just a matter of connecting. When the right part She is out to prove that “Sandy Loves Chicago!” of pop culture you might be in the cross hairs. comes along, it will happen. Windy City Times: Hi, Sandra. We are all Really, Mariah is so talented and so eccentric. I WCT: And now a woman is probably going to very excited that you are coming to Chicago. would never seriously tear her down because she win an Oscar for best director. Sandra Bernhard: I couldn’t be more excited to is a great talent, crazy and interesting. SB: And deservedly so, that was by far my fa- be coming! WCT: She was actually pretty good in the vorite film of the year. WCT: You are doing five performances, which movie Precious. WCT: Any future projects for 2010? seems like a lot. SB: She was great in Precious. SB: There is potentially with a lot of them. I SB: Yes, and yet not really. I am used to doing WCT: I want you to know that I thought “I’m don’t want to call it a reality show but it is me extended runs in New York. Five shows seems Still Here Damn It!” was brilliant. mentoring people and finding interesting enter- like a drop in the bucket but I am glad that I SB: Thank you. tainers. That is something we are out pitching. am going to be there for a few days and settle WCT: What do you think of comics like Lisa There is a show that I wrote with a really tal- in and people will know about it. It is nice to Lampanelli and Sarah Silverman, who I inter- ented writer and we are trying to get that set up come into a city for one night and the next day viewed recently? for me to be in. It is a cable television project. people will go, “She was there last night?” This SB: I think that they speak to their particular I am up for countless TV and film things but so is an opportunity to everyone to come to see the experience in life, to the things that have in- are a lot of other people. You go in, audition and show so it is exciting. formed them as women and trying to be a part of hope to nail something really soon, as well as WCT: Well, I am happy to get the word out the comedy scene. I was really lucky because I perform live. about the show. I have been a fan of yours for got out of the mainstream comedy scene when I WCT: You are going to be here on Valentine’s a long time. was really young—right after King of Comedy— Day—any advice for the lovers? SB: Good, thank you. Sandra Bernhard. Photo by Jasmine Hirst and I kind of never went back to it again. I have SB: Valentine’s Day is amateur time. I think WCT: This is a benefit for Personal AC P , always forged my own unique path in the com- the good ones hide out on Valentine’s Day. which is an organization dedicated to elect- edy and entertainment world. Personally, I find Whether you are single or as a couple come will be doing my stories, monologues, observa- ing pro-choice candidates. it very uncomfortable to do stand up and be that check out Sandra Bernhard performing at the tions—all woven in and out of songs. SB: Yes, I have come in to doing something verbose. I look at the world in a different way. Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway, on WCT: So you will have your band there. for them a few months ago, and I think it is a I think what they do is very interesting, but it Feb. 11 at 8:30 p.m. and Feb. 12-14 at 7:30 SB: Yes. great organization. It is one of the most com- is not my particular style. It doesn’t engage me. p.m., with an additional performance Feb. WCT: What was it like singing with Chrissie prehensive in the country for getting women’s It’s not a put-down. I think they are very tal- 13 at 10:30 p.m. For VIP tickets that include Hynde? reproductive rights on the books. They are super ented. special seating, backstage pass, photo, auto- SB: It was amazing. She is one of the greatest on it, together and really have women’s backs in WCT: I understand. How was this movie you graphed CD and opening-night party at Side- voices of our time. She is a really generous cool a great way. did called Dare? track, 3349 N. Halsted, call 312-422-0005. person. She is totally unimpressed with herself. WCT: Are you singing at your performances SB: My friend David Brind wrote it. It was a For more information visit www.Personalpac. She has a global view of life and the world. She this time out? great cast. It was a bisexual coming of age film org or www.lakeshoretheater.com. is super-inspiring and a great talent. 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They make me want to “The heights I’ve accomplished in rugby have Gareth Thomas plays for the Cardiff Blues rugby train everyday and then play on the weekends. helped soften the blow.” club, which is like being a member of such pres- I think they have helped re-light my passion for The impact of Thomas coming out immedi- tigious, world-renowned teams as the New York rugby.” ately spread to media outlets worldwide. In fact, Yankees, Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Laker, Thomas, 35, is a Welsh rugby player—but cer- Sports Illustrated is sending a reporter overseas or even the Chicago Cubs. tainly not just any rugby player. for a week with Thomas. Thomas is the team’s star. “Gareth is the ninth all-time leader in totals Thomas’ fan mail certainly has picked up since And gay, Thomas announced in December. tries, the equivalent of a touchdown in Ameri- coming out and the letters are coming from all “I’m sure he’s going to get called names and can football,” said Paul Cannella, one of the top over the world, he said. someone is going to take a cheap shot [at him, players for the predominantly gay Chicago Drag- “I told my story because I wanted to help eventually], but overall, it won’t be a big deal ons rugby club. “Think about the level of scoring people, especially youngsters in the U.K. But and he’ll have 14 teammates ready to back him in terms of American football and the top ten this story has quickly become a lot bigger than up,” said Paul Cannella, the former president of running backs of all time [in the National Foot- [just about] me, a lot bigger than the game of the predominantly-gay Chicago Dragons rugby ball League]. Gareth would be mentioned along- rugby,” he said. club. “In the last five years of playing in CARFU side Jerome Bettis, Marshall Faulk, O.J. Simpson “I am right now the happiest I’ve ever been, (Chicago Area Rugby Football Union), there have and Eric Dickerson. He’s an all time great.” and this is something that I’ve always wanted been less than five incidents that I would say And here’s the big catch: Thomas is still ac- for my life. I can finally be at peace with myself. were associated to the fact that a majority of tive. Whenever I had issues in the past, be it injury- [the Dragons’] players are gay. The odd or funny Thomas has done what no athlete has done or money-related, it was always quadrupled by thing is, three or four of the times a name was in the NFL, the National Baseball Association the fact that I was hiding this secret. called, or punch tossed, our player involved was (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major “But I am now who I want to be.” straight. League Baseball (MLB) or Major League Soccer Thomas was married to his childhood sweet- “Overall, CARFU is a phenomenal and accept- (MLS): reveal that he is gay while still playing. heart, Jemma, from 2002-2006. The couple mar- ing organization. Couple that with the baseline “I think it’s really cool to have a player of ried in St Brides Major, and filed for divorce in that all ruggers respect other ruggers for having his caliber not only come out, but continue to Gareth Thomas (left). Photos on this page 2007. the heart, guts, body and mindset to step out play,” Cannella said. “[Rugby] is one heck of a and on the cover courtesy of Thomas Those four years were “difficult,” he said. onto that pitch to play the greatest game in tough sport to play and a lot of nasty things can thought I was making a stand and I felt that the “I loved my wife and I took my vows very seri- the world.” happen down in the trenches. My guess is that time was right. I believe that everyone has the ously,” Thomas said. “To cheat on my wife … to Cannella added: “I’m really glad to see lead- he has paid his dues, [so] his team will embrace right to be whoever they want to be. be unfaithful to my wife made a lot of demons in ers like Gareth coming out. It will only make him and rivals will as well. He is an admirable “And the reaction has been amazing. my heart; it made me into a person who I didn’t it easier for others to do [so], regardless of leader both on the pitch and off.” “I thought what could be the worst case like when I looked in the mirror. I was happy whether they are [an] athlete or not, in their Thomas played for the Wales National Team possible, but the reaction has been good. I’ve with my wife and I intended to spend the rest of youth or later in life. It’s just a matter of time during 1995-2007, and set history when he be- gotten an amazing amount of support from my my life with her, but that wasn’t to be. I think until we [see] the first big outing in the U.S. for came the first Welshman to win 100 internation- teammates, from my coaches, from my family, we’re both in a happier place now. As much as I an active professional player. Several will follow al caps in rugby union. He also has had stints from friends, from complete strangers. So many was struggling to deal with my demons, she was and, within five years after the first, there will with the British and Irish National Teams. people have said how much my story has helped as well. I know it was tough on her. be at least one in every major sport. Be strong “I obviously opened up a different side of me them. To hear my story, to hear what I dealt “I knew I had to stop lying to her. I also had and be who you are, so you can live your life to to the person who everyone thought they knew,” with, they could relate, and I was fortunate to stop lying to myself.” the fullest.” Thomas said. “All of a sudden, people are very enough to help them.” Thomas, while married, cheated on his wife interested in this other side of me. Thomas’ worldwide impact extends well be- with men, “very, very, very few” times, he said. “The greatest thing is, as far as my career yond the pitch where he’s made his biggest im- “Rugby took my mind off what I was think- goes, nothing has changed. Everyone around pact to date. ing, these thought that I didn’t want to have,” me knows that, when I go to work and perform Thomas is a role model. He was before coming Thomas said. “Being in a combat sport, I was my job, I am the same guy that I always have out, and arguably a bigger one now. It’s a role able to take out a lot of anger and frustration, been—and I appreciate that. Just because I he cherishes. including sexual frustration.” came out as gay does not make me any softer. “I take being a role model very serious. I know, Thomas admits that, while in London, he could “Being in the environment of sports, I thought as a role model, that you have to very carefully blend in with the crowds and would go to gay I might have to fear [for myself] after coming watch what you say and do,” Thomas said. clubs. “I regret that to this day,” he said. out. But actually, it’s the complete opposite.” “It’s such a powerful story because of my [on Thomas is now single, yet not actively looking A month after coming out, Thomas has not the field] achievements, but, the reality is, I’m for Mr. Right. had any negative reaction, although he braced lucky to be at the very top of my game. I know “I’ve gone through so much [that] I feel I need for the worst. there are many people, at lower levels of this to deal with this myself,” he said. “It might not “I’ve always been the person to stand up and sport and in other sports, who are struggling be right to bring someone into my life at this say, ‘This is how it is, like it or lump it,’ whether with this same issue. Coming out has almost stage, at least until I’m more settled.” it be in sports or life in general,” Thomas said. been easier because of my success, yet I thought But, he added, “I want to find a man [who] “So, I wasn’t really fearful [about coming out]; I makes me as happy as I was with my wife.” So who is Mr. Right? “Wow,” he said, laughing. “My interests are sports and working with children, so [if] it would be someone with the same interests, that would be great. Someone who is as passionate as I am.” Please join us for A TASTE OF ROPA is is just a sampling of the wonderful new dishes at RoPa. 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His second album Heartbreak on Vinyl was released this past Vickie Shaw (above) will October. 2 pm, 773-975-9533, Borderline make ‘em laugh at Circuit Music - Lakeview, 3333 North Broadway, Wed., Feb. 10 http://www.borderlinemusic.com and at the College of Color of AIDS series reports NBC-5 Chicago IT PLAYS IN PEORIA Fat Saturday Ball: Allure! “Revolution DuPage. is producing the “Color of AIDS” campaign Friday, Feb. 12 Never Looked So Glamorous!” is an annual on HIV/AIDS and communities of color, fundraiser for EdgeAlliance (AIDSCare). with reports airing every day at 5am and The lesbian move Hannah The theme for this year’s gala is promis- Photo by 5pm Feb. 8 - Feb 12. 5pm, http://www. ing to reprise the glory days of 1930’s and Kat Fitzgerald nbc5chicago.com Free, which was filmed in 40’s cinema. 7pm, Westin Chicago River (MysticImagesPhotography.com) Columbia College Chicago presents: The Chicago, will premiere in North, 320 North Dearborn Street, http:// Wild Party Columbia College Chicago Peoria, Ill. www.edgealliance.org/pages/fat_satur- presents The Wild Party by John LaChiusa day_ball/52.php and George C. Wolfe. 6:30pm, http://www. Dyke Delicious: Orgasm, Inc. The strange Tuesday, Feb. 16 colum.edu/theater science of female pleasure Dyke Delicious Mauro Fiore to Speak at Columbia College Bisexual Panel Discussion Group Casual, screening series, exclusive Chicago en- Fresh from an Academy Award nomination peer-led conversation group on the sec- gagement. Shocking and hilarious docu- this week as director of photography for ond Wednesday of each month. 7pm, Cen- mentary filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job the box office record-setting film Avatar, ter on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted, http:// cinematographer Mauro Fiore will be the Exhibition The Chicago Urban Art Society, $100. Available only through Personal editing erotic videos for a drug trial for www.centeronhalsted.com featured speaker for Columbia College’s Chicago’s emerging not-for-profit art orga- PAC. Bernhard’s Lakeview show begins at a pharmaceutical company.7 pm Social Board Game Night with Sapphic Adven- Conversations in the Arts: Media in the nization, is proud to present Sweet Tooth: 8 pm and the party begins after the show. Hour, 8 pm screening. Co-sponsored by tures Join ladies from Sapphic Adventures 21st Century. 7pm, 312-369-7420, Film A Charity Bake Sale & Art Exhibition. 8pm, 312-422-005, Sidetrack, 3349 N Hal- Black Cat Productions. $10. 7pm, Chicago for a night of board games and casual Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago, Chicago Art District 2003 South Halsted sted St, http://www.personalpac.org Filmmakers, 5243 N Clark, http://www. social. Please do bring your own games 1104 S Wabash, 8th Floor, http://www. Street; 6pm, 773-318-9407, http://www. chicagofilmmakers.org to share! We have over 900 members and colum.edu/conversations chicagourbanartsociety.org Vickie Shaw’s “Cabin Fever Follies!” Direct focus on women-only social events out- Drag Race hosted by Frida Lay Frida Lay American Veterans for Equal Rights (gay Friday, Feb. 12 from her la-la-pa-Lesbo tour....a benefit side bars. 7pm, http://www.sapphicad- hosts Chicago’s only amateur drag contest veterans) Monthly meeting. AVER is a Busch Fest, four Early plays by drag for YouthOutLook of the western suburbs. ventures.org every Tuesday at 11pm in Roscoe’s front non-profit association dedicated to full theater legend Charles Busch Featur- $25/students $15. info@youth-outlook. bar. Drag Race has been a hit since its and equal rights for all present and for- ing Busch’s: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, org; 7:30pm, 630-415-2053, http://www. premier in 2000. 11pm, Roscoe’s Tavern, Thursday, Feb. 11 mer members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Sleeping Beauty or Coma, Theodora She- youth-outlook.org/ Princess Zindaba Nyirenda Princess Zinda- 3356 N Halsted St, http://www.roscoes. 7:30pm, Center on Halsted, 3656 N Hal- Bitch of Byzantium, and Pardon My Inqui- Singing Out with Glee Don’t miss this Song ba “Zindie” Nyirenda was raised in privi- com sted, http://www.averchicago.org sition or Kiss the Blood Off My Castanets and Dance Cabaret Show to raise fund for lege during Zambia’s economic boom. Af- Sandra Bernhard after party benefits Per- running in repertory Friday and Saturday arts education in the Chicagoland area. $5 ter she relocated to the U.S. she watched sonal PAC Following her opening at the nights. Charles Busch came to theatrical Suggested Donation Party begins at 9pm, Wed., Feb. 17 in horror as life in her homeland rapidly The Joffrey Ballet presents The Joffrey Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway, prominence in 1984 when his hit play Show at 10pm. 9pm, 773-604-1892, @ disintegrated under economic devastation Ballet’s 2009-2010 “Season of Legends” Sandra Bernhard will attend an opening Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Through Feb. mosphere, 5355 N. Clark St., http://www. and the influx of AIDS/HIV. Zindie found- continues with Sir Frederick Ashton’s Cin- night party benefitting Personal PAC, the 20; 12pm, 800-838-3006, Mary’s Attic, artreachspotlite.com ed a non-profit organization to equip and derella, back by popular demand. Widely pro-choice political action committee 5400 N Clark, http://www.buschfest.com URBANO President’s Day Party URBANO’s empower local leaders in neglected vil- considered one of the greatest ballet in- dedicated to electing pro-choice candi- Desire .10 Queer Caucus Art Exhibition Hip Hop Presidents Day Party at Circuit lages of Africa. 1:15pm, Women & Chil- terpretations of this timeless fairytale, dates to state and local office in Illinois. Logsdon 1909 Gallery is proud to an- features DJs Anton, Corons & Kenae spin- dren First, 5233 N. Clark St., http://www. Ashton’s Cinderella is an enchanting fan- Front row reserved seat, back stage pass, nounce the opening of a multi-media ning Hip Hop, House & Reggaeton. Sexy womenandchildrenfirst.com tasy full of splendor, humor and magic. photo with Sandra and an autographed group exhibition entitled Desire .10. The URBANO Go Go Boyz. 11pm, (773)957- Sweet Tooth: A Charity Bake Sale + Art 7:30pm, 800-982-2787, Auditorium The- CD, $250. Reserved seats and the party, show will feature the work of members of 4021, Circuit Night Club, 3641 N Halsted atre of Roosevelt University, 50 E Congress the Queer Caucus, a division of the College St, http://www.urbanochicago.com Pkwy, http://joffrey.org Art Association. The exhibition will be on view until March 6, 2010. 6pm, 312-666- Sunday, Feb. 14 8966, http://www.logsdon1909.com So in Love…with Broadway Valentine’s Thursday, Feb. 18 9th Annual Freedom to Marry Reception Hannah Free screens in Peoria The Peo- Day Chicago favorites Laura Freeman and With more than 60 community partner ria, Ill., premiere of Hannah Free, a film Bradford Newquist with pianist William organizations and over 400 attendees, starring former Peoria resident Ann Hage- Underwood bring together a glittering “Freedom to Marry” has been a favor- mann opposite Emmy Award-winner Sha- mosaic of the world’s favorite American ite event celebrating and advocating for ron Gless. Hannah Free is an independent music. $20 in advance/$25 at the door; marriage equality in Illinois. Hosted by Chicago made film about two women who 2pm, 847-677-7761, http://www.skok- Lambda Legal with hors d’oeuvres, wed- shared a loving relationship through- ietheatre.com ding cake, drinks, “Let Them Eat Cake”(a out their lives, only now one must fight Roman Catholic Mass Dignity-Chicago cel- short theatre performance advocating to keep that love alive. Ann Hagemann ebrates a Roman Catholic Mass every Sun- marriage equality), and DJ Harry. Lauren will attend the screenings of the film for day, 5PM, at Broadway United Methodist Hernandez at lhernandez@lambdalegal. talk-backs afterwards. Hannah Free also Church 3338 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL org; 6pm, 312-663-4413, ext 327, http:// features a cast of Chicago stage veterans 60657; 5pm, http://dignitychicago.org/ www.lambdalegal.org/events/ and was shot entirely on the South Side current.htm Jump Rhythm Jazz Project Performances of Chicago and in Beecher, Illinois. $10 Show Your Love For Haiti-Valentine’s Day Jump Rhythm Jazz Project will mark its at the Peoria Theater. Free parking. www. Alternative Old Town School and Haitian 20th anniversary with a program at The peoriatheater.com One night only. Second Congress to Fortify Haiti are partnering for Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. show 7:30. 7pm, 309-202-2278, http:// earthquake relief with nine bands: Darwin Join us for three evenings of rhythm-driv- www.hannahfree.com Noguera and Evolution Trio (Latin Jazz), en story dances performed to the sounds River North Chicago Dance’s Valentine Tchaka (Haitian), Ecos del Pacifico (Afro- of jazz, blues, funk, rock, and world music. Show River North Chicago Dance Company Colombian), Mexican Folkloric Dance Com- 8pm, (312) 369-8330, http://www.colum. continues its 20th anniversary season pany, The Pilgrim Jubilees (Gospel), Jimmy edu/dancecenter with the annual Valentine’s Weekend En- Keane and Sean Clelland (Irish accordion gagement, Feb. 12 & 13. 8pm, 312-334- and fiddle), Tamboula Ethnic Dance (Hai- 7777, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, tian), Seneke West African Dance Ensem- Friday, Feb. 19 Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers 205 E Randolph Dr, http://www.rivernor- ble. $25; 7pm, 773-728-6000, Old Town Ladylike ass-kicking, Chicago style. At thchicago.com School of Folk Music, 4544 N Lincoln Ave, 9:30 pm, the lady wrestlers enter, and the Tamale Presents LOL-Vickie Shaw Vickie http://www.oldtownschool.org battle begins. Final match and champion- Shaw is a seasoned comedian addressing crowning is at 11:30 pm, after which the the triumphs and trials of being a woman, Monday, Feb. 15 regulation arm-wrestling table is open to a mother and gay in America. Only $10, Essay Fiesta is a monthly, first-person read- all. Open bar and audience participation. 21+; 8pm, Circuit Night Club, 3641 N Hal- ing series and benefit that features some of $25 includes open bar or $5 and cash bar. WED HEADS sted St the best writers, comedians and journalists 9:30pm, http://www.sideshowtheatre.org Thursday, Feb. 18 Jeannie Tanner, (You Can Kiss Me into Any- in Chicago. 7pm, http://www.facebook. thing) Vocalist, composer and trumpeter com/home.php?ref=logo#/pages/chicago- Jeannie Tanner blends jazz, blues, R&B, il/essay-fiesta/168837787537?ref=ts The 9th Annual Freedom to Marry Reception will take place at the The National Mexican Museum of Art, 1852 W. 19th. Get : WindyCityMediaGroup.com Photo from the 2009 event by Emmanuel Garcia online ChicagoPride.com Feb. 10, 2010 21 BILLY MASTERS The season belongs to the “I hope you die, so I can be the last Golden back at Caesars shortly. Marie Osmond reminded Girl!”—According to the New York Daily News, everyone that she’s celebrating 45 years of per- this is the card that accompanied the flowers forming in Vegas. And the lovely and ageless Betty White sent to Rue McClanahan, who is re- Gladys Knight explained how she convinced Bet- ® covering from a stroke. We’re told Rue laughed te that she could (and should) do the show— out loud—and looked over her shoulder! and paid tribute to Midler with her exquisite My buddy Greg Louganis will be appearing in rendition of “The Way We Were.” Since we got a The Little Dog Laughed, which is part of the great audio of the show, we’ll run some clips and Broadway Series at the Indian Wells Theater on pics from the finale on BillyMasters.com. and maybe the Queen! Cal State’s Palm Desert campus. This is interest- Photos have surfaced of the Kellan Lutz un- ing for a variety of reasons. First of all, he’ll be derwear ad for Calvin Klein—and they’re hot! playing a devastatingly handsome up-and-com- But Kellan has some competition—CK also shot ing movie actor who is the last person anyone sizzling Mehcad Brooks, Fernando Verdasco and would think is gay. Tom Everett Scott was 36 Hidetoshi Nakata. Abs and baskets everywhere! when he did it on Broadway. Rupert Friend is They all look amazing, and they’ll all turn up on 28 and is currently playing the part in London. BillyMasters.com. So given Greg just turned 50, this will add a fascinating dimension to the play. Then there’s the question of the nudity, which I know you’ll all be particularly interested in. Needless to say, I’m gonna head out to see it sometime during the run (April 16-25), so I will definitely give you a full report. But that’s not all. Greg has launched a cam- Celebrating paign to be cast on the next season of Dancing with the Stars. I think that’s a brilliant idea and Cupid’s work would love to see him on the show. However, I’m told producers feel Greg has too much dance Sunday, Feb 14 experience and not enough star power. Uh, check your previous rosters, people—compared ® to some of the DWTS alum, he’s Michael Phelps (to me, he’s bigger). By the way, rumor has it Pamela Anderson is in the running to join the “Dancing” cast. They must have added the ever- And mark your calendar for our Mystical Mardi Gras Tuesday, Feb. 16. No Cover popular “Lap Dance” to the competition! Nothing comes between Mehcad Brooks and I know it’s too early to have a favorite story his Calvins. Sidetrack The Video Bar • 3349 North Halsted • SidetrackChicago.com of the year, but this one is definitely in the run- ning. On Feb. 4, male model Nick Snider was Our “Ask Billy” question comes from Nate in arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly Key West: “Have you seen ‘The Secret Life of the conduct in Batesville, Ark. When the police first American Teenager’? Brando Eaton plays a gay approached him, he told them, “I am a very fa- student and he’s gorgeous! What do you know mous model.” And he’s right—Snider was named about him? And what pics do you have? And is the world’s fifth most successful male model by he gay in real life?” Forbes in 2008. Alas, this didn’t impress the That name sounded so familiar to me, and cop, who arrested Nick and put him in the back then it hit me—I recently ran a clip of him from of the patrol car to bring him to the county jail Dexter. Before that, he was naked with Seann where he would be charged with public intoxi- William Scott. Not in real life (that I know of), cation and disorderly conduct. During the ride, but in the film Balls Out. Sure, with that cast Snider allegedly told Deputy Brian Luetschwa- and that title, it sounds like a gay porn. Se- ger, “If you stop [the car], I’ll suck your dick ann’s playing tennis in a jock strap, and he and and balls if you let me go.” Shockingly, this ap- Brando end up in the shower together. And yet proach was not successful. He repeated the of- it’s not porn—it’s just a bad film no one saw! fer to policemen at the jail (and, I’m guessing, Most people know Brando from Zoey 101, a show to some of his fellow inmates). He did manage one of my nieces watched. He’s even hotter in to accomplish one thing—he was also charged the show Nate is writing about, which is on ABC with illegally attempting to influence a public Family Channel—a station I don’t believe I’ve servant. ever turned on. We did track down some clips of Bette Midler just wrapped up her very success- him with his shirt off and he’s quite spectacu- ful run at The Coliseum at Caesars Palace. Celine lar. Although he plays gay convincingly, there’s Dion sent a video, chastising Bette for singing no evidence that he is in real life. However, her song (Midler does a bit of “My Heart Will Go he’s obviously a supporter. Last summer, he ap- On”). BTW, rumors abound that Celine will be peared in a parody of the film Quarantine, which was called Queerantine! In this short, kids in a high school caught “the gay” after being taught about same-sex marriage. He’s seen briefly run- ning through the halls in a towel. Loads of pics and clips on BillyMasters.com. When a top model is begging to bottom, it’s definitely time to end yet another column. Have I mentioned my birthday is coming up? Yes, Chi- cago, on Feb. 13, Billy will be a chronological year older—even if his spirit is fighting it every step of the way! Feel free to join in the celebra- tions at www.BillyMasters.com, where we rou- tinely fulfill all of your salacious celebrity needs. If you’ve got salacious personal needs, feel free to write me at [email protected] and I promise to get back to you before Greg and Pa- mela dance in their old swimsuits! So, until next time, remember, one man’s filth is another man’s bible. Greg Louganis has dance fever. 22 Feb. 10, 2010 Friends of Lesbians & Gays). Both screenings will some high-profile athletes and coaches come Pride House include special post-screening panel discussions out and we hope with Pride House it may give featuring Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mark the nudge, the inspiration to others to come out Tewksbury as emcee. Plus, there will be a spe- and celebrate their full authentic selves. Having debuts at cial presentation by Pride House artists Edmund more positive role models for our youth to look Haakoson and Jeff Sheng. up to and inspire to. Perhaps this may prevent Winter Pride House Whistler’s maximum capacity is one less teenage suicide, public pressure may 100 people; the Pride House Vancouver Celebra- help repeal legislation that openly discriminates tion Venue’s is about 300. against LGBT people.” Olympics “Our primary goal for Pride House is based on Pride House has already received incredible By Ross Forman awareness and creating dialogue on homophobia worldwide media coverage in such outlets as the within sports and at the community at large,” New York Times, Globe & Mail, National Post, The LGBT community certainly will have a proud said Nelson, who has lived in the skiing mecca UK’s Guardian, Italy’s Republic and Australia’s presence at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic of Whistler for 15 years. “Therefore, our goal is DNA magazine, plus various radio and TV net- Winter Games in Vancouver (Feb. 12-28), even if not determined by [the] number of visitors. We works. there are not any openly gay athletes. know that people will be curious about the pa- “The Olympics made producing the annual Gay The first-ever Olympic Pride House will be lo- vilion and will want to come and experience the & Lesbian Ski week a bit more complicated,” cated in the boutique hotel known as The Pan pavilion and see some of the art exhibitions we Nelson admitted. “Some of our venues have Pacific Whistler Village Centre, marking the first will have on display, watch the Olympics, hang changed slightly and it has also meant that we time in Olympic history that gay athletes will out and meet interesting people from around the are keeping the programming of WinterPRIDE have a dedicated place to relax with family, world.” quite streamlined. It has forced us to be very A work by Pride House artist Edmund friends and fans. And what about safety? proactive and get all of our programming in Haakoson. Photo courtesy of Dean Nelson The Pride house was coordinated by GayWhis- “The resort community is a very open and wel- place well ahead of schedule. Pride House is just tler.com, whose WinterPride gay ski week has ing a time slot that would work for everyone. We coming environment that embraces the value of complimenting those efforts. been named the number-one gay-ski event in determined that the transition period of March being authentic,” Nelson said. “The community is “We encourage everyone to come out and sup- the world by Gay.com and PlanetOut. 1-8 in between the Olympics and the Paralym- very proud of the initiatives that we are creating port the initiative by talking about homophobia Pride House will be open Feb. 8-March 24, for pics would work best for everyone. Once we had and our fight for respect and equality through- and celebrating our accomplishments. Face- three events: The Olympics, WinterPRIDE and secured the festival’s week we began working on out the world. We do not anticipate we will have book, Twitter, blog your experiences and share the Paralympics. a strategy to be part of the Olympics by creat- [anti-gay] problems, but [we are] working with your stories. By being more visible, it gives us “This is a very exciting time for the resort of ing a venue that would be a fun and celebratory the Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre and the the ability to move forward and inspire others Whistler, and I am thrilled to be able to con- place while creating a dialogue on homophobia local authorities. We have procedures in place around us to live full authentic lives and being tribute in making these games one of the most within sport and beyond.” that we are able to act upon should the need proud of who we are.” inclusive to date,” said Dean Nelson, 40, of Nelson said the only expectation for Pride arise.” Whistler, who is the CEO/executive producer of House is “to create a warm, welcoming en- Nelson, who is single, said his favorite sports GayWhistler.com and Pride House. “There is a lot vironment where like-minded individuals can are snowboarding, hiking and mountain biking. Female arm of excitement and energy around what we are come and cheer on their favorite athletes, meet And, naturally, he is a fan of the hometown Van- creating with Pride House. It has never really people from around the world, and to create a wrestlers Feb. 19 couver Canucks of the National Hockey League The Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers is been done before, and that is giving people a dialogue on homophobia within sport by having (NHL). His favorite pro athlete is international holding “CLLAW V” Friday, Feb. 19, at The Mystic new reason to be excited about the Olympics. this diversity pavilion part of the Games.” rugby sensation Gareth Thomas who, in Decem- Celt, 3443 N. Southport, 9 p.m.-12 a.m. “The [local] annual Gay & Lesbian ski week, Pride House has several events planned, in- ber, announced he is gay. Tickets are $25 and include access to a three- WinterPRIDE, normally happens the first week of cluding special movie screenings of Training Nelson participated in the 2006 and 2009 hour open bar. Proceeds from the benefit, February. With the 2010 Olympics scheduled [to Rules, presented by CAAWS, the Canadian Asso- World Outgames in Montréal and Copenhagen, brought by Sideshow Theatre Company, will ben- start] the week following, we needed to look at ciation for Advancement of Women in Sports & respectively, in the human-rights conferences. efit Rock for Kids. See www.cllaw.wordpress.com how we could work with our local community, Physical Activity; and Beyond Gay: The Politics “It is our hope that London 2012 will want or www.SideshowTheatre.org. tourism bureau and the Games producer in find- of Pride, presented by PFLAG Canada (Parents & to continue with the concept and produce Pride House and, more importantly, in Sochi in 2014 [since] being gay in Russia is not as comfort- Red Stars holding able. Having this pavilion [in Sochi] could be a safe and welcoming venue for many. We would winter clinics 2010 Census Workers!!! be honored to have this as a legacy we are able The local women’s pro team Chicago Red Stars to offer future Olympics,” Nelson said. is holding multiple soccer clinics throughout Nelson said he does, in fact, expect Pride Chicagoland. Recruiting Part-Time, Temporary House to be visited by Olympians, along with Several sessions include the opportunity to their family, friends and allies, regardless of learn alongside Red Stars defender and 1999 World Cup champion Kate Markgraf as well as Crew Leaders Census Takers Office Clerks sexual identity or preference. “Pride House is a substantial investment, Red Stars forward and former University of Illi- Assistant Crew Leaders Recruiting Assistants considering we are renting prime space during nois All-American Ella Masar. Space is limited for the Olympics for a total of 42 days, spanning the Red Stars’ winter clinics, so register early. the Olympics, WinterPRIDE and the Paralympic Contact Red Stars Camp Director Kate West- Games,” Nelson said. “Pride House is only made fall at 708-496-9511, or register online at Chi- Apply Now ! Take the Census Test possible by the generous support of our spon- cagoRedStars.com. Winter sessions run through sors that believe in the concept and want to Feb. 27. For Testing Locations be part of this historical event. Our sponsors include: St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation-BC Cen- Skibudz going to tre in Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Barefoot Wines, Call 866-861-2010 Whistler Beer, Whistler Water, Ethical Bean Cof- Whistler, B.C. The LGBT club Skibudz is going to Whistler, Or visit our website: fee, Interactive Male, Sugoi, Air Canada, GLISA, InterPride, Travel Gay Canada, Qmunity-BC’s British Columbia, March 2-7 for Whistler’s Winter Queer Resource Centre, Virgin Radio, Whistler Pride. http://2010censusjobs.gov Question, Pink Banana and LOV Magazine. Members are staying at the Coast Blackcomb So how will Pride House be judged a success? Suites at Whistler, which is a “ski-in/ski-out” It already is, Nelson said, “in that our goal location. Applicants must pass a Written Test and Background Check was to create a dialogue on homophobia and Direct flights from O’Hare Airport to Vancou- and bring 2 forms of identification to the testing session. raise awareness. ver are available, and are most expensive than “We have already generated good pre-Olympic flights that have layovers in Seattle, Wash. 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